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Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> 
> What would be difficult (or impossible) would be to provide a
> satisfactory explanation of the option using the small number of
> characters available.
> 
> You're right that the FreeBSD libc lacks Unicode collation support,
> but it seems that no gain is made by sticking to a legacy locale:
> 
> $ touch A B a b
> $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; ls
> A       B       a       b
> $ export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1; ls
> A       B       a       b
> 
> As you can see, the files are incorrectly sorted with both locales. On
> a Linux box, the sort order is correct (a A b B) in both cases.
> 
> If someone can convince me that there are good reasons to use a legacy
> locale, I might add the option despite the fact that its description
> would be cryptic.
> 

As you can see below sorting is quite OK on FreeBSD ...

$ mkdir test
$ cd test/
$ touch A B a b
$ ls
A       a       B       b
$ locale
LANG=sk_SK.ISO8859-2
LC_CTYPE="sk_SK.ISO8859-2"
LC_COLLATE="sk_SK.ISO8859-2"
LC_TIME=C
LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_MONETARY=C
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_ALL=