From 523fc2d8d7f8fd518f95762b116a150d351af7e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 00:15:53 +1300
Subject: Force LC_COLLATE to a sane value

It always really annoys me when e.g. the leading dot or leading slash in
pathnames or filenames gets ignored for the purposes of sorting.

I may refine this later on but it seems like a good start for an
approach.
---
 sh/profile.d/lang.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 sh/profile.d/lang.sh

(limited to 'sh')

diff --git a/sh/profile.d/lang.sh b/sh/profile.d/lang.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..44d1cefa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sh/profile.d/lang.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Use the system's locale and language, but if it's not C or C.UTF-8, then
+# force LC_COLLATE to an appropriate C locale so that the order of sort and
+# glob expansion stays sane without making e.g. dates insane. Don't interfere
+# at all if LANG isn't even set.
+case $LANG in
+    C|C.UTF-8) ;;
+    *)
+        if locale -a | grep -q C.UTF-8 ; then
+            LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8
+        else
+            LC_COLLATE=C
+        fi
+        export LC_COLLATE
+        ;;
+esac
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