sort bizard behavior [was: (no subject)]

[Eric Blake]

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According to ara on 4/2/2007 2:59 PM:
> Subject: sort bizard behavior

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> Please read the following. I do not know if it should be like that
> 
> 
> address@hidden:~> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> address@hidden:~> sort < s2
> 10 sfdafdsafdsa
> 1 safdfdsafsd
> 22
> address@hidden:~> unset LANG
> address@hidden:~> sort < s2
> 1 safdfdsafsd
> 10 sfdafdsafdsa
> 22

Yes, that is correct.  LANG controls the default setting of LC_COLLATE
(which can also be controlled by LC_ALL); setting any one of these three
environment variables to anything other than C (or POSIX) means that you
want strcoll to obey locale sorting rules.  And the en_US.UTF-8 locale
intentionally does not sort by byte order in strcoll.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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