[Techtalk] Dolphin sort order

[John Clarke]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:51:29AM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would really like to have all the same letters together, like this:
> > [...]
> 
> I don't use Dolphin, but in the terminal and in nautilus sort order is
> governed by the current active locale. It's usually the way you

On my Ubuntu 10.04 system, ls and nautilus sort differently, even with the 
same setting for LC_COLLATE (or LANG if LC_COLLATE isn't set).  The 
difference is in how they handle hidden files and directories. With 
LC_COLLATE set to "C", ls puts hidden files first (strict ASCII sort order) 
and nautilus puts them last, but otherwise sorts in ASCII order.

With LC_COLLATE set to en_AU.UTF-8, ls ignores case and the leading "." on 
hidden files & directories when sorting.  I don't know what nautilus does 
(I'd have to logout and probably reboot to change LC_COLLATE to find out, 
and I don't want to do that).

You can set LANG and LC_COLLATE in /etc/default/locale.    By default, 
Ubuntu sets only LANG in this file, but you can add LC_COLLATE if you want 
to change the default sort order.  Whether Dolphin or Konqueror obey 
LC_COLLATE is left as an exercise for the reader :-)


John

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