Re: "sort -nu" treatment of "0" & empty lines

[Bob Proulx]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>      A string of zero digits is interpreted as `0'.
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > That sounds to me like it's talking about "000000".  Maybe "A string
> > of no digits"?  Or "A line that ends or has has nondigit characters
> > where the number would be"?
> 
> Good point.
> Thanks.
> 
>   by a decimal-point character and zero or more digits.  A string of
>   no digits is interpreted as @samp{0}.  The @env{LC_NUMERIC}

That almost sounds like a double negative, and confuses me.
The following reads better to me.

  A string without digits is interpreted as @samp{0}.

Bob