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A file containing: Z a A z _ sorts in correctly the results are "_,a,z,A,Z" instead of "A,Z,_,a,z". According to the change log for it. They require "LC_ALL" to be set to "POSIX" before the correct sorting behavior is seen. A simple changes to /etc/profile will work for all tty based processes. However a different solution needs to be present for Crontab to work. My suggestion? Fix "textutils" to *DEFAULT* to POSIX, and let LC_ALL override it. Update the info/man to state this change.
Guess we should set LC_ALL somewhere in initscripts - hacking textutils for different defaults would cause confusion and breakages for scripts written to run on different distributions/OSes.
No. We used to set LC_ALL, and it broke other things.
As stated before. This should be considered a "textutils" bug. LC_ALL should not need to be set anywhere in initscript since it's the incorrect thing to do.