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Date:      Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:33:22 +0100
From:      michael schuster <Michael.Schuster@Germany.Sun.COM>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: locale errors
Message-ID:  <36BA9EC2.5AE608DF@Germany.Sun.com>

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> My locale is set do de_DE.ISO_8859-1, not de_DE.ASCII
> If I type 2 characters ss, I mean 2 characters ss. If I type ß I
> mean the single character ß.
> This sorting behaviour is just wrong. Not every apperence of "ss"
> even in pure  ASCII does mean "ß".

I suggest you set LC_COLLATE to C, then it sorts in the good old
fashioned way its meant to be.
(like this on Solaris 7:
	Assel
	aSS
	asen
	ass
	asse
	assel
	assen
	aß
	aßen
)

and so:

Grüße
Michael
-- 
Michael.Schuster@germany.sun.com

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