Re: sort behavior - Ubuntu problem?

[The Wanderer]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> "Kevin Scannell" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Can anyone with a Debian-like distribution reproduce the strange
> > sort order I'm seeing?
> > a
> > á
> > áa
> > aá
> > az
> > áz
> > ázzzza
> > azzzzá
>
> I can't, with Debian stable x86.  I get the order you expect.

I can, with a mix of Debian unstable and testing, also x86.

==
$ sort test.txt
a
á
áa
aá
az
áz
ázzzza
azzzzá

$ sort --version | head -n1
sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97

$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
==

FTLIW, I get precisely the same result with my default locale, in which
both LANG and LANGUAGE are set equal to en_US.UTF-8 (no quotes). I
explicitly set LANG and unset LANGUAGE for this test.

If there is information I can provide which would be helpful, just let
me know what it is and where and how to obtain it.

> I get the same order with coreutils 6.7 as well.

I don't have coreutils 6.7 handy, but I'm grabbing the latest CVS code
now, and can build it and test with that (assuming that it runs properly
from its build location) if need be.

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