On 2/6/06, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > german rigau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Obviously, the problem is in the sort command. With C locale > > runs perfectly. However, I use LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... > > And then it seems that the "sort" command have different behaviour ... > > I don't see any bug in the examples that you gave.
Sorry for insisting. If you see carefully the last example I sent, we obtain two different sortings with locale en_US.UTF-8 ... with "sort kk2" we obtain "icecream" before "ice_cream" and with "sort -k 1,2 kk2" we obtain "ice_cream" before "icecream"! However, we obtain with "sort kk2" and "sort -k 1,2 kk2" the same ordering with locale C. ?? Getting back to the original question, "join" must use the same > collating convention that "sort" does. If you "sort" in the > en_US.UTF-8 locale, you must "join" in the same locale. Otherwise, as > you discovered, things won't work in general. No. I use the same collating for sorting and joining. This is why I detected the abnormality: join failed to locate the same elements ordered by the default sorting ... Also, my advice is to stick with the C locale unless you know what > you're doing. I think I know perfectly what I am doing ... ;-) For example, if you're not sure what you want to do in > the case of encoding error (or, if you don't know what an encoding > error is :-), then you should stick with the C locale. > > But, this is only useful for encoding English language ... and there are many more around. Best, German _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
