[plug] Time format in Debian Sarge

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Jun 9 13:05:37 WST 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 12:52 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> That's not quite true, it's actually limited to 7-bit ASCII for most
> applications.  (e.g. mutt won't display any accented characters in a C
> locale.)  There are also differences in things like collation order;
> e.g. in a C locale, `ls` (and anything else that does a "proper"
> locale dependent sort) will sort uppercase letters before lowercase
> letters, but won't in en_*.*.

Ah, ok. That's interesting to know - thanks. And ugh.

I think a lot of apps treat it as ISO-8859-1 these days, though. If it's
not supposed to be, that by its self is kind of scary.

-- 
Craig Ringer




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