"The value of the LC_ALL environment variable has precedence over any of the other environment variables starting with LC_" Patch submitted upstream (with more information) at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash diff -u -r ../dash-0.5.8/src/mkbuiltins ./src/mkbuiltins --- ../dash-0.5.8/src/mkbuiltins 2014-09-28 04:19:32.000000000 -0400 +++ ./src/mkbuiltins 2015-05-17 19:08:00.076452891 -0400 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ if ($i ~ /^-/) line = $(++i) "\t" line print line - }}' $temp | LC_COLLATE=C sort -k 1,1 | tee $temp2 | awk '{ + }}' $temp | LC_ALL= LC_COLLATE=C sort -k 1,1 | tee $temp2 | awk '{ opt = "" if (NF > 2) { opt = substr($2, 2) @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ */ ! -sed 's/ -[a-z]*//' $temp2 | nl -b a -v 0 | LC_COLLATE=C sort -u -k 3,3 | +sed 's/ -[a-z]*//' $temp2 | nl -b a -v 0 | LC_ALL= LC_COLLATE=C sort -u -k 3,3 | tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ | awk '{ printf "#define %s (builtincmd + %d)\n", $3, $1}' printf '\n#define NUMBUILTINS %d\n' $(wc -l < $temp2)