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#1

xubuntu 9.10

three files named as -> aaa, _boo and _Buu

thunar sort them "the best way" *_boo _Buu aaa* (that means it is case insensitive BUT keeps special characters)

other programs (gimp, firefox, ls, etc...) sort them like *aaa _boo _Buu* (that means it is case insensitive and ignores special characters)

i'd like to have everywhere a sorting method like the thunar one... but what can i do? a gconf settings? which one?

#2

As far as I've looked in ls, there isn't a way to not ignore the underscore character, unless you can change the code for ls and compile it from source (or is ls part of the bash shell? ... few minutes later... Nah, guess not. :().

#3

depends from LC_COLLATE setting... seems that someone else had the same issue and didn't find a solution ](*,) :(