Topic: locale

• Locale and date pitfalls in coreutils: LC_ALL, character ranges and GNU versus BSD date

  The locale silently changes sort order, what [a-z] matches, decimal separators and the default date format; scripts should set LC_ALL=C (or C.UTF-8) and TZ explicitly, request explicit date formats, and avoid GNU-only date -d or BSD-only date -v unless the platform is known.

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