Re: sort ignores dashes?

[Corin Hartland-Swann]

Hi there,

Further to my original message, I have tested textutils 1.22 and 2.0
under Linux and Solaris. The only combination which fails is v2.0 with
Linux.

TextUtils  OS                                                  Status
1.22       Linux 2.2.14 (Mandrake 7.2, based on Red Hat 7.0)   Working
2.0        Linux 2.2.14 (Mandrake 7.2, based on Red Hat 7.0)   Broken
2.0        Linux 2.2.3  (Debian 2.0)                           Working
2.0        Solaris 2.7  (SunOS 5.7) sun4u                      Working

I only thought to test it on various version/OS combinations when I
discovered that the Solaris sort did not exhibit the same behaviour.

Does this indicate that it might be something to do with the locale
handling, i.e. it could be a problem with the Mandrake locale programs?

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote:
> I assume that this is intended behaviour and not a bug, but I couldn't
> find it documented, and wanted to know how to disable it.
> 
> Summary: When sorting a list of word with dashes in them, sort appears to
> ignore the dashes (textutils v2.0).
> 
> The following file is not changed by sort:
> 
>     a
>     a-b
>     ab
>     a-c
>     ac
> 
> I want to sort it like this:
> 
>     a
>     a-b
>     a-c
>     ab
>     ac
> 
> Because ASCII '-' is smaller than alphabetical chars.
> 
> Is there any way to make sort behave like this?

Regards,

Corin

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