Re: g_utf8_collate case sensitivity

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> on 9/5/01 11:52 AM, Havoc Pennington at hp redhat com wrote:
> 
> > Of course, no one should be using the C locale anyhow...
> 
> Let me translate that into "how this affects Darin" language:
> 
> "It doesn't matter how Nautilus sorts when the locale is not set up
> properly. If Nautilus users don't set their locale and they get
> case-sensitive sorting in directory views, that's OK. That's their problem.
> They configured their system wrong, so all bets are off."
>

I wouldn't really go that far - I think it's fine to handle C if it's
easy. I just wouldn't bend over backward worrying about it, since C is
kind of a silly locale to use.
 
> PS: One problem with this is that I installed Red Hat in the simple ordinary
> way and for some reason my programs run in the "C" locale, not the "en_US"
> (or whatever it should be). So it seems that I configured my system wrong.
> Just out of curiosity, how should this be set up on a stock Red Hat system?

It's en_US on recent versions AFAIK; I don't know when the transition
occurred.

There's a program called locale_config to configure it, which sets up
/etc/sysconfig/i18n.

In any case, if Red Hat is broken that's our problem, and we'll fix
it I hope.

Havoc