In theory, the en_US locale is supposed to be aimed at people, while the
C locale is aimed as computers. In theory, one of the remarkable
differences is in sorting:
$ printf '%s\n' \| a \0 \^ \& B c C | LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8 sort
&
0
B
C
^
a
c
|
The non-sense there is obvious, with "^" sorting in between the letters,
"|" afterwards and sorting of capitals and non-capitals split. The reason
is the ordering is based on the ascii table. In theory, an en_US locale
should be able to provide a sensitive ordering, but what takes care of it
is the libc, and musl does not have it properly implemented. So LC_COLLATE=en_US
will still give the same results. However, that's hopefully going to change
at some point, and there's no harm in setting a sensible locale by default.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Correa Gómez <ablocorrea@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Smith <ollieparanoid@postmarketos.org>
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