[SLUG] Re: [GLUG-chat] Locale and Sort order

[Johnny <johnny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* top posting--- easier to follow

Here's a snip for other mere mortals
Stick this in your profile file, or your .bashrc, or your .xinitrc... I 
think profile is where it belongs.
and yes the guru's are all right, "a" with come after "A", "d" after "D" 
in nautilus.

I tested to see if ELEMFM (another file manager) also started collating 
like this, no it doesnt, it still sticks "a" after "X"... oh well.

Note if you on debian and your "locale - a" shows no locales, then  
apt-get install localeconf, and it will kick off the  installation of 
locales.

LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US

export LANG
export LC_CTYPE
export LC_NUMERIC
export LC_TIME
export LC_COLLATE
export LC_MONETARY
export LC_MESSAGES
export LC_PAPER
export LC_NAME
export LC_ADDRESS
export LC_TELEPHONE
export LC_LC_MEASUREMENT
export LC_TELEPHONE
export LC_IDENTIFICATION
export LC_ALL

Just another little thing, in nautilus, I also thought quick navigation 
was broken. ie if you type the first letter of a file, it goes there but 
if you hit the letter again, it does not move to the next one. The 
guru's said... just type the actual file name, it goes there, nice.

Oh, if you on debian, nautilus is really only now getting really good in 
SID, before that it had issues.
Can do things like right click and make a new folder, new file, file 
associations etc.     Yeah, watch out M$, someones overtaking.

Thx Gareth... damn you good.

Gareth Gregor wrote:

> > In my normal blundering way I sent the guys at nautilus an email, 
> > "Hey you got bugs, why does 'a' come after 'X' in the file lists, its 
> > not logical".
> > The super guru's sent me an email... "Hey Einstein, you got the C 
> > locale running... just change the locale".
> The guru's may be a little off too. 'Cause A comes before X and a 
> comes before x, but a comes after X.
>
> Confused? Ok, files with a capatal letter as the first letter will 
> come before the ones with lowercase letters, as will Directories.....
>
> Anyway, to answer the questino there are many many ways to change the 
> Locale on linux, the one way is when GDM comes up to login you change 
> the "lang" type on the menu and the then login, but seen as you dont 
> use GDM and just use xinit then you can do this a few otherway. Run 
> the command locale and then see its output.
>
> Then to change it you can use locale -a or -m to display all the 
> different ones there are, remember to pipe (|) it to less cause there 
> are a lot. Then cause its only bothering you in X then in your 
> .xinitrc file you can reset them so when X starts up it uses them. eg....
>
> locale >> ~/.xinitrc        (make sure you use the >> and not >)
>
> then open .xinitrc and change the POSIX to en_ZA or en_US depending on 
> where you be from....
>
> Or just use
>
> local | sed s/POSIX/en_ZA/g >> ~/.xinitrc
>
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