From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 09:42:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
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(More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
`ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index ad843d8f74..18479cac7f 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -5388,6 +5388,12 @@ fractional one:
       abc-1.01a.tgz      abc-1.012b.tgz
 @end example
 
+This functionality is implemented using the @code{strverscmp} function.
+@xref{String/Array Comparison, , , libc, The GNU C Library Reference Manual}.
+One result of that implementation decision is that @code{ls -v} does not
+use the locale category, @env{LC_COLLATE}.  As a result, non-numeric prefixes
+are sorted as if @env{LC_COLLATE} were set to @code{C}.
+
 @node General output formatting
 @subsection General output formatting