Re: Feedback: Six Nautilus annoyances

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Die, 2004-02-10 at 16:12, David Christian Berg wrote:
> > AFAICT nautilus arranges items correctly: it uses the current locale's
> > method to sort the items. You probably haven't set the LC_ALL or LANG
> > environment variables, so they default to "C" (or "POSIX" ?) and without
> > a specified locale all posix tools sort case-sensitive. Try to set
> > LC_ALL to "en_US", "en_US.UTF8" or whatever you like and start nautilus
> > within this environment. For me this works with nautilus 2.4.1 and the
> > locale "de_CH.UTF8".
> 
> Since I've been annoyed by the exact same thing as Eugenia has... could
> you please tell me, how to change the locale?
> That'd be great.

I assume most distros have the ability to change the locale in their
configuration tools; else you can try to manually add "export
LC_ALL=your_locale" to your ~/.profile file - assuming your profile file
will be read by your installed display manager.

Jürg