Re: sort peculiarity

[Eric Blake]

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According to Alvaro R Pereira Jr on 5/31/2007 5:19 AM:
> Hello,
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug or a peculiarity. Anyway, I would
> appreciate to receive a feedback about how to proceed. I am using sort
> to eliminate duplicated entries in textual files, using the -u option.
> Sort cannot recognize some extended ASCII characters as different, such
> as the char decimal numbers 249 and 250.

This is most likely not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part
as to how locales affect sort.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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