Re: bug of sort??

[Bob Proulx]

James Youngman wrote:
> It looks to me like you probably just have locate settings that you don't 
> like:-
> 
> ~$ sort -t "    " -k 1  <  Desktop/T
> ...versus...
> ~$ LC_ALL=C sort -t "   " -k 1  <  Desktop/T

I have the following in my $HOME/.bashrc file.

  export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  export LC_COLLATE=C

The documentation says:

     Unless otherwise specified, all comparisons use the character
  collating sequence specified by the `LC_COLLATE' locale.(1)
  ...
     (1) If you use a non-POSIX locale (e.g., by setting `LC_ALL' to
  `en_US'), then `sort' may produce output that is sorted differently
  than you're accustomed to.  In that case, set the `LC_ALL' environment
  variable to `C'.  Note that setting only `LC_COLLATE' has two problems.
  First, it is ineffective if `LC_ALL' is also set.  Second, it has
  undefined behavior if `LC_CTYPE' (or `LANG', if `LC_CTYPE' is unset) is
  set to an incompatible value.  For example, you get undefined behavior
  if `LC_CTYPE' is `ja_JP.PCK' but `LC_COLLATE' is `en_US.UTF-8'.

Bob