On Wednesday 22 March 2006 13:08, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Actually, I should have said .[a-Z]* . > > But that's why I added the footnote. File globbing (at least in bash) > observes the LC_COLLATE environment variable, or LANG if LC_COLLATE is > not set. And that dictates how letters sort. The "C" locale observes > traditional case sensitivity, the way you suggest. But en_GB.UTF-8 > (which I imagine both Anne and I are using), en_GB, en_US, fr_FR, and (I > imagine) most other locales sort "aAbBcCdD...", with other accented > characters in there, too. > Ah - I didn't really understand the footnote. Thanks for the explanation. > So [a-Z]* gets the lot. > > That's also why ls no longer lists the filenames beginning with capital > letters before the rest. > Side issue, James. Are you having any problems displaying accented letters? I have language=British English, and character set=utf8. When I should see an accented letter I get a double space instead. Anne
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