Nothing more than a rant....
It's not that tough - when using most english locales, we sort case insensitively. a==A, B==B and so on. Pragmatically, the only reason for picking a locale other than UTF-8.generic is because I would really, really like these rules obeyed.
I am sick to death of having to work around stupidity.
I'm just complaining as I look at the output from ls and it's pretty much a case sensitive sort. I'm sure that accents are sorted correctly in EN_ie - after all á is the same as a, but apparently it's different to A.
Sorting it difficult... the rules are so complicated... stop complaining! you're able to perform at least 600 million operations per second, and a table lookup for a case insensitive sort is probably going to cost 20.
Bear in mind that the number above was a quick back of the envelope number of an iPhone. I'm sure a real computer will be able to do something a little better...
Update:
Looks like it's not Linux, it's only Leopard that doesn't understand EN_ie collation. Oh well, that's life I suppose…
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