> From: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:43:16 -0600
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
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> If I understand it, wrapping things in braces helps, in that sorting
> will then be done on all the bytes in a multibyte-encoded letter
> instead of on just the first byte.
OK, but that still leaves the question of whether the byte sequence
corresponding to {à} sorts before or after {É}, say. And Gawk
determines that by calling locale-dependent libc functions, doesn't
it? Or did you assume LC_ALL=C, which will cause Gawk work with
individual bytes? (And if so, what do other Awks do in that case?)
IOW, why did you say strncmp and not wcscmp?
