Emulation and NUMERIC_GLOB_SORT

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In another thread, Sven wrote:
} And I hope there are no calls [in the completion function system]
} to `emulate -L zsh' at all -- I hate it ever since it once reset
} NUMERIC_GLOB_SORT for me

I've always been really ambivalent about whether glob sorting ought to
be controlled by emulate, but I also always conclude that there might
be some circumstance in which someone is relying on globbing order.
However, now that I think of it, globbing order is already going to be
altered by LC_COLLATE, so scripts that rely on it are out of luck in
the first place.

Anyone care to dispute the conclusion that either NUMERIC_GLOB_SORT
should not be reset by emulate, or else LC_COLLATE should not be used
in glob sorting?  (We already removed it from character ranges.)

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