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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:47:49 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker on Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:37:05 +0200 (MET DST))
Subject: Re: NLS and djgpp.env
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> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:37:05 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> 
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:39:35 +0200 (MET DST)
> > > From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> > > 
> > > If at all, it would be a good idea to set LC_COLLATE to "C",
> > > lest users be badly surprised by 'grep' and other regex tools if they "set
> > > LANG=de" and then use pattern like [a-z].
> > 
> > If we decide to set LC_COLLATE, I would suggest doing so in a special
> > section for Grep programs, not a general setting.
> 
> Fine with me, too. 

Btw, is this problem even relevant to DJGPP?  We don't really support
any locale but the C locale, and our strcoll function doesn't know how
to sort except according to ASCII.  Am I missing something?

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