Re: Sort order bug in GNU sort

[Bob Proulx]

Luke Hutchison wrote:
> I understand that --help output needs to be relatively short,

Let me vote here too, --help needs to be concise.  Longer explaination
ant tutelage should go in the full info documentation.

> nevertheless adding a short example will probably save lots of similar
> questions on the mailing lists if the FAQ is correct in stating how
> frequently this question is raised.

The number of questions about it has definitely fallen off in the last
couple of years.  During the initial transition from the old libc to
the new libc with locale based collating (it is really a libc thing)
there were many.  But not so many more recently.  Mostly because by
now most users have already made the transition.  And now new users
are arriving only having ever seen the new behavior and are learning
it for the first time and are now coming to expect locale sorting by
default.  And the idiom to correct this problem of setting the local
to C/POSIX is getting to be much more widely known.

Bob