bug#18298: Sort behavior

[Pádraig Brady]

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On 08/19/2014 01:41 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>    [3. text/html]
> 
>    Sort on LINUX is behaving in such a way that does not make common
>    sense.
> 
> 
>    Afile:
> 
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING2------------- C
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------0 B
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------1 A
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING3------------- D
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------- E
> 
> 
>    Sort afile (does not work, all variations specifying aEUR"key or any
>    other option does not work either)
> 
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------0 B
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------1 A
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING2------------- C
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING3------------- D
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------- E

Your locale is ignoring the punctuation chars ('-' and ' ' in your case).
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
To avoid that:

  LC_ALL=C sort afile

thanks,
Pádraig.