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If you
use a non-POSIX locale (e.g., by setting LC_ALL
to `en_US'), then sort may produce output that is sorted
differently than you're accustomed to. In that case, set the LC_ALL
environment variable to `C'. Note that setting only LC_COLLATE
has two problems. First, it is ineffective if LC_ALL is also set.
Second, it has undefined behavior if LC_CTYPE (or LANG, if
LC_CTYPE is unset) is set to an incompatible value. For example,
you get undefined behavior if LC_CTYPE is ja_JP.PCK but
LC_COLLATE is en_US.UTF-8.
If you use a non-POSIX
locale (e.g., by setting LC_ALL to `en_US'), then ls may
produce output that is sorted differently than you're accustomed to.
In that case, set the LC_ALL environment variable to `C'.
Redhat Linux 6.1, for the November 2000 revision of this article.