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. > The information contained in this communication is confidential, is It is considered poor netiquette to send such emails to publicly archived lists, where they are rendered unenforceable. You may want to use a free mailer instead of your employer's account. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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