Re: g_utf8_collate case sensitivity

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 9/5/01 5:58 PM, James Henstridge at james daa com au wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, and who will convince all the other distros/OS-s that they should
>> install with "en_US"[1] as default instead of "C" ?
> 
> Of course, defaulting to US locale will piss off a lot of people.  US
> defaults are often wrong in countries other than the US.  The default
> paper size is one of the most annoying ones, which some apps decide on by
> looking at the locale.

To be a bit pedantic: What I suggested is not defaulting to the US locale.
I just suggested case folding in ASCII when in the "C" locale. I would hope
that the US locale handles characters with accents and other such things
even better than that.

    -- Darin