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When I browse to open a file, I’m always frustrated about the order in which things appear. I don’t like the whole lowercase before uppercase, and having the scroll right down to ‘D’ because it’s not ‘d’ seems pointless.

Today I poked at solving this and it’s a simple fix.

Edit /etc/locale.conf and change LC_COLLATE=C to match your language, eg.

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8

Reboot and the job is done. Now I see things sorted regardless of case.


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