[lejoko]

This won't work because LC_ALL overrides LC_COLLATE (and all the LC_* variables actually). It's LANG that you want to use. LANG is overriden by LC_* which are in turn overriden by LC_ALL. Don't use LC_ALL in your config files, use it only for one shot command lines or in scripts that need to be sure of the environment they run in.

[xenophonf]

Thank you both for the clue. I used to have LANG set, but I'm just going to unset them all. I think I put them in originally to change how directory listings got sorted, but I'm not sure I care any more. :)