> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:08:01 +0100 (BST) > From: Corin Hartland-Swann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> But what do you get for: > > $ (echo a; echo B) | sort -u On Solaris 8 with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8, I get: a B with both Solaris sort and with GNU textutils sort. > Would you still expect all the uppercase letters to come first by default? In that locale, I expect the order of ASCII letters to be a, A, b, B, ... I also expect all the accented a's to be next to each other. For many applications, It's a more natural order than the C-locale order. > However, can I persuade you to add a --binary option (or similar) to force > straight byte-order sorting? This would allow users to keep the default > locale definition for collation (so that things were displayed in the > correct order in lists), but to force sort(1) not to use it. Why not just use "LC_ALL=C sort", if you want a C-locale sort? That's just as easy to use as "sort --by-byte" or whatever; and it's portable to all POSIX implementations, as opposed to being GNU-specific. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
