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Re: LC_COLLATE vs. egrep -- bug or (non-)feature?
On 10/11/2011 02:49 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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
Correct.
2) _Where_ should I set those values? As far as I can tell I'm not
currently setting them at all. . .
For individual users, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.zshrc, or whatever other
shell-specific startup files you use, works well.
There's currently ongoing discussion about making cygwin's locale(1)
program provide sane defaults based on the current Windows localization
settings, which would then be incorporated into /etc/profile for
system-wide default for all shells, but that thread hasn't yet settled
on the final patches to use.
For a single override, do so in the script needing the override (and
that's where setting LC_ALL=C is most commonly seen - for example, all
./configure scripts sanitize the world to the C locale up front).
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