Re: sort seems deficient

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Jim Meyering (address@hidden) wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > ??? I just used sort on a redhat Enterprise 5 server.
> >
> > ??? Sort seems to ignore leading "." characters.? This is incorrect.
> 
> How sort works depends on your locale.
> This link explains and tells you how to change that behavior:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

That explanation is somewhat unclear whether it's due to an unexpected
behaviour of the locale or the locale tables actually being broken.
I tried to read bits of the Unicode spec last time I hit this
and came away not being entirely sure whether it was actually
valid behaviour.

If someone could point to something which says 'you should sort
these non-alphanumeric characters like this' and the Linux one
doesn't then perhaps someone will fix it.

Dave
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