Bug 18747
| Summary: | Case-sensitive sorting broken | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alex Malmyguine <alexim> |
| Component: | mc | Assignee: | David Mason <dcm> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-10-09 21:31:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Alex Malmyguine
2000-10-09 21:31:53 UTC
Sorting is determined by national language settings. For English (UK and US) that is AaBbCcDd etc not ABCD-Zabcd-z. So if its sorting AaBbCc etc then the behaviour is correct. If you prefer the old (wrong) behaviour set LC_COLLATE appropriately This is exactly what is called 'case insensitive'. If this is intended behavior than the check box is confusing and has to be renamed or removed. No matter what was the reason for change, following had to be taken into consideration: mc is a tool for those who are not so computer literally, in simple words, for users and this category of people really has problems adjusting to the changed behavior. What I suugest is making old sorting order default and new an option until it becomes common. Remember that not everybody will immediatelly move to the latest version and there still will be thousands users used to it. In that world is't enough to begin your file name with a capital letter to have it on top of the list, which is quite convenient. |