SCO UNIX (3.2.2) 'ls' is broken... what a shame

[Larry Philps]

In <46 at esacs.UUCP> pizzi at esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi) writes:

> In article <1991Jan03.143742.23436 at sco.COM> larryp at sco.COM (Larry Philps) writes:
> >Anyway, what you have done is set your default environment to
> >english_us.8859, rather than english_us.ascii.  Thus you have asked for
> >ISO 8859 sorting rules rather than ascii sorting rules, and are getting
> >case independent sorting among other things.  I was also confused when
> >this happened the first time.
> 
> Wait! I have *not* chosen explicitly the 8859 collating sequence.
> SCO did it!! I think the correct default would better be 'ascii'.

In my opinion, their is *no* correct default.  Everybody wants something
different, and the locale stuff tries to please everyone.

Actually, you do get prompted for the locales you want to use when you
install the International Supplement.  You can pick ascii.  However,
I agree that all the consequences of the various choices are not
spelled out.  Probably because that would require an entire book :-(

> What does exactly I18N stand for?

It is a short form for internationalization, an I, 18 dumb letters,
and an N. :-)

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