[SOLVED] ls sorting issues

I've been trying to figure out why the ls command hasn't been working properly on my laptop. As far as I understand, the command should sort the output by alphabetical order. On my system, it does, but it also sorts the output by case. For example, here's some sample output:
$ ls -l
drwx------ 7 miles users 4.0K Sep 15 20:28 Downloads
... (omitted lines) ...
drwx------ 2 miles users 4.0K Sep 8 21:33 Vboxshare
drwx------ 3 miles users 4.0K Aug 6 04:04 VirtualBox VMs
drwxr-xr-x 7 miles users 4.0K Aug 13 04:01 abs
drwx------ 23 miles users 4.0K Aug 10 15:41 analysis
drwx------ 34 miles users 4.0K Aug 6 01:16 analysis2
... (omitted lines) ...
drwx------ 2 miles users 4.0K Aug 6 01:35 watch
-rw------- 1 miles users 2.7M Aug 6 01:03 1205.2960v1-1.pdf
-rw------- 1 miles users 274K Aug 6 01:03 1206.4152v1-1.pdf
-rw------- 1 miles users 110K Aug 6 01:03 2011 SummerHousingContract_3_.pdf
-rw------- 1 miles users 2.7K Aug 6 01:03 2011 SummerHousingContract_3_.xoj
-rw------- 1 miles users 66K Sep 10 11:59 Frosh Week starting 9-9.doc
-rw------- 1 miles users 19K Aug 6 01:12 Yucht_Miles_Resume.odt
-rw------- 1 miles users 215K Aug 6 01:12 Yucht_Miles_Resume.pdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 miles users 22 Sep 13 10:00 cos -> school/fall2012/cos217
lrwxrwxrwx 1 miles users 23 Sep 15 19:52 isc -> school/fall2012/isc235/
... (omitted lines) ...
-rw------- 1 miles users 48K Aug 6 01:31 todo.xoj
-rw------- 1 miles users 680K Aug 6 01:35 vim_cheat_sheet.jpg
Ideally, the sorting should be case insensitive. Any ideas why this might be?
Last edited by yucht (2012-09-18 07:21:37)

Locale?
build@sakura[pts/2]:~$ LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" ls -a
. .cache Documents .gnupg .local .ssh .viminfo .zshrc
.. .config Etc .history .ncmpcpp .tmux.conf .vimrc
builds .dbus .gitconfig .links .scripts Videos .zcompdump
build@sakura[pts/2]:~$ LC_COLLATE="C" ls -a
. .config .gnupg .local .ssh .vimrc Documents builds
.. .dbus .history .ncmpcpp .tmux.conf .zcompdump Etc
.cache .gitconfig .links .scripts .viminfo .zshrc Videos
EDIT: touched a few Capitalized files to show how LC_COLLATE affects them.
Last edited by WorMzy (2012-09-18 01:49:34)

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