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Re: sort bug?


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: sort bug?
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:31:31 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Most likely you are sorting in a locale that discards information
about quotes and spaces before doing comparison.  Try setting the
environment variable LC_ALL to "C" and then sorting.  The command
"sort --help" talks about this briefly, and the documentation says
more.




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