Ouch! Truth hurts! ;) The worst part is that American programmers may never be hit by most of the horrors of LC_CTYPE et al, so will not fix it for those that

Ouch! Truth hurts! ;) The worst part is that American programmers may never be hit by most of the horrors of LC_CTYPE et al, so will not fix it for those that do. And the poor guy who installed Postgres and tries to sort Arabic can't figure out why in Heaven's name the order seems random.