Chet Ramey wrote:
> Bruce Korb wrote:
> > $ unset LC_COLLATE
>
> If LC_COLLATE is unset, LC_ALL and LANG both affect the collating
> order.

Aha!  So that is where the apparent "system default locale" comes 
from.

$ locale | grep COLL
LC_COLLATE=POSIX

$ unset LC_COLLATE
$ locale | grep COLL
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"

$ unset LANG
$ locale | grep COLL
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"

Thanks, mystery solved.

Benno


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