Re: Bug in the sort utility

[Eric Blake]

On 03/08/2010 03:39 PM, Warner Mike - miwarn wrote:
> We came across something that appears to be a bug as opposed to an
> unintended design feature.

Most likely, it is neither a bug nor an unintended feature, but a
documented feature of locale specifications.

> 
> I am expecting the output to come out in ASCII sorted order.

If you aren't using the C locale, then you should be aware that some
locales collate case-insensitively, and ignore punctuation.  In fact,
this is a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

Try 'LC_ALL=C sort' to see the difference.

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