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Re: bug of sort??


From: jiusheng chen
Subject: Re: bug of sort??
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:01:26 +0800

Hi Bob and James,

Thank you, guys.
Quite professional answer, very informative:)

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
>



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Thanks,
Chen Jiusheng


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