Re: Sort and LC_COLLATE and utf -- NEVER MIND

[felix]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:22:17AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> I have discovered an inconsistency in how perl and sort handle locale.
> Here are two commands you can run in a shell ...
> 
>     (echo '/'; echo '?') | sort
> 
>     (echo '/'; echo '?') | perl -e '@x = <>; print $_ foreach sort @x'
> 
> With LANG=en_US.UTF-8, sort says ? comes before /, perl says the
> opposite.  Setting LC_COLLATE=C switches the sort behavior.

I have now found that this is Perl acting up.  Adding "use locales"
fixes it to also sort utf differently.

Sorry for jumping the gun :-(

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