[TAG] BLOCKSIZE unset by default

[Ben Okopnik]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:00:02AM -0700, Mahesh Aravind wrote:
> > 2008/6/21 Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > Not on my Debian Etch install it didn't.  Ah well. 
> > Nice thing to know
> > I suppose.
> 
> That would depend very much on your locale...
> 
> I think mine's set at LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
> 
> It's the locale that determines how the digits are to be separated.
> If your is "C", then no donuts for you. :D
> 
> Try something like.. LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 BLOCKSIZE="'4096" ls -l...
> 
> Hey, I also notice that the ".UTF-8" part DOES indeed makes the
> difference. Any idea why?
> 
> LANG=en_GB is NOT the same as LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> Wonderingly,
> Mahesh Aravind

It's a different charmap for that locale, thus the different result.
Different $LC_COLLATE, etc. One is configured to separate numbers that
way, the other one isn't. Frankly, I'm a bit puzzled at your puzzlement.
:)


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