Use the new string-collate-lessp function in ls-lisp.el.

 lisp/ls-lisp.el (ls-lisp-use-string-collate)
 (ls-lisp-UCA-like-collation): New defcustoms.
 (ls-lisp-string-lessp): Use them to control sorting by file
 names.

 etc/NEWS: Mention that ls-lisp uses string-collate-lessp.

Fixes: debbugs:18051

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index ff00659cba0..8dbdb46c826 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-09-01  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * NEWS: Mention that ls-lisp uses string-collate-lessp.
+
 2014-09-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         --enable-silent-rules now suppresses more chatter.
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 100214f1108..1d9f8ca850f 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ environment.  For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
 
+*** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
+If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
+option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
+
 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings.  This