it seems sort is suffering from some subtle bug. i am wondering, is it just my machine, is it a redhat problem, or is it actually a gnu bug?
for example, en_IN seems to produce proper results, but en_AU fails to handle some special characters properly. but both of these locales use the same stock definitions: LC_CTYPE copy "i18n" END LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE copy "iso14651_t1" END LC_COLLATE en_IN producing correct results: $ LC_CTYPE=en_IN LC_COLLATE=en_IN sort /tmp/sos groan grosr groß grost red résumé resumed en_AU producing incorrect results: $ LC_CTYPE=en_AU LC_COLLATE=en_AU sort /tmp/sos groß groan grosr grost résumé red resumed (glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9, coreutils-4.5.3-19) (redhat 9+up2date) _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils