sort -R need not respect locales

[Michael A. Smith]

sort -R works well when LC_ALL=POSIX; however, sort -R sorts in exactly the
same way as sort with no options with my LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF8 settings.

Empirically, setting LANG or any LC* variable makes the -R option of no effect.

Under most circumstances sort's locale-respecting behavior makes perfect sense,
but "randomness" is character set-agnostic. Shouldn't sort -R not care about
LANG or LC* values?


Thanks,
Mike Smith