On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:51, Guy Fraser wrote:
Eric Wood wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ernest L. Williams Jr."
>
>
>>Many applications seem to have a problem with the default locale in
>>Fedora. (e.g. adobe acrobat reader)
>>
>>Why is the default US.UTF-8?
>>
>>
>
>Any time I use sed or grep on my script I make sure to set LANG=c first.
>US.UTF-8 slows grep searches *way* down. It was so slow that I thought I
>had hardware problems - nope, just unicode slowing down my scripts.
>
>-eric wood
>
It also makes them case insensitive. #^%$$# ^&%*& !!!
Actually I think it only makes the sort operations case insensitive.