LC_COLLATE=en_US

From: Seth Arnold (sarnold@wirex.com)
Date: 09/04/02 

Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:26:44 -0700
From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com

Greetings;

I recently found the default settings of LC_COLLATE on a recent RedHat
Linux distribution to be highly surprising. An example:

$ touch a A b
$ echo [a-z]
a A b

I am much more used to LC_COLLATE=C behavior:
$ touch a A b
$ echo [a-z]
a b

I would wager there is some software that expects LC_COLLATE=C as well.
I just don't have the time to search for them, so I turn to you, the
good reader, in the hopes that you will have time to search for
unexpected behavior on systems where LC_COLLATE does not reflect
traditional Unix behavior.

Happy Hunting! 

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