[NTLUG:Discuss] Undoing Windows Sytle ls foo

[kbrannen@gte.net]

MadHat wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 13:27, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>>Just upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.3.  All is well except I can't seem to 
>>find which switches were installed that cause the oddball directory 
>>listing.  I want (need) to have the old style UNIX directory listings 
>>with the dot-foo stuff first, alphabetized with case-sensitivity, etc. 
>> This new listing looks too much like the crap Windows users have to 
>>contend with.
> 
> 
> Its not a library or a compile problem... it is a feature.  Red Hat is
> now setting LANG variables in the /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and
> /etc/profile.d/lang.csh scripts to support foreign languages.  
> 
> By default for english, it is setting LANG to en_US.iso885915, if you
> set LANG to just en, it goes back to 'normal' (yeh!!)
> 
> The value is actually set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n for the whole system or
> you can also create a local file ~/.i18n and put LANG=en in it to
> override the system defaults.

Except that I've seen this problem on SuSE too.  So I guess you'd say they 
followed RH's lead, then changed it back?  Unsetting LANG, or setting it to 
"en_US.iso885915" on both my SuSE 8.0 and a RH 7.2 machine don't cause it to 
"go bad".  (BTW, my RH7.2 system defaults it to "en_US".)

I also do not find LANG mentioned anywhere in the man page (or the info page). 
  Where did you find this tidbit?  I wonder what else I'm missing... :-)

Kevin