-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Alvaro R Pereira Jr on 5/31/2007 5:19 AM: > Hello, > > I don't know if this is a bug or a peculiarity. Anyway, I would > appreciate to receive a feedback about how to proceed. I am using sort > to eliminate duplicated entries in textual files, using the -u option. > Sort cannot recognize some extended ASCII characters as different, such > as the char decimal numbers 249 and 250.
This is most likely not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part as to how locales affect sort. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXsTr84KuGfSFAYARAl5nAKCSVO0FWglBc8hOqERCE0SDwyHmZgCgl430 2kVUlhorWG7dAIkLHbVnjpA= =MYMN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
