[forwarding on your mail to the list, to close this out]
On 09/02/2010 11:55 AM, saddy wrote:
Thanks for your reply. In my last mail some spaces have been lost, so
now indeed it is line 5 to sort.
The spaces were gone before your original mail hit my inbox. From the
mail headers of your original mail, I see you use Thunderbird:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US;
rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.0.6
which has a known issue where pasting text or replying to a prior email
can result in Tbird eating spaces prior to words starting with <, >, and
&. That's probably the explanation.
I've found out that it has been my fault. I have locale de_DE.UTF-8,
therefore sort is assuming ',' for floats. With en locale it's working
fine.
Ah, an issue with locales.
And yes, the new 'sort --debug' tries to make locale issues obvious,
since that's the first thing it outputs:
$ sort --debug -k6g test.txt
sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules
Glad to know it's not a bug.
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