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Subject: Re: LC_COLLATE vs. egrep -- bug or (non-)feature?
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From: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:49:37 +0100
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Eric Blake writes:

> On 10/11/2011 01:20 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>> Is this a feature, or a bug associated with the current ongoing
>> discussion about locales:
>
> (mis)-feature, and not necessarily a cygwin bug.
> [excellent explanation elided

Thanks very much for the clear and helpful explanation! 

> LANG=preferred LC_COLLATE=C
>
> and don't set LC_ALL.

Hmm.  Two remaining questions:

 1) By 'preferred', I presume you mean my preferred setting, e.g. en_GB.utf8
 2) _Where_ should I set those values?  As far as I can tell I'm not
    currently setting them at all. . .

Thanks again,

ht
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