% echo -e "a\nB" | LANG= sort
B
a
% echo -e "a\nB" | LANG=en sort
B
a
% echo -e "a\nB" | LANG=en_US sort
a
B
% sort --version
sort (GNU textutils) 2.0e
% uname -a
Linux texel26 2.2.16-3smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 19 19:00:35 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
[Red Hat 6.2]
This is pretty serious since desktop environments like GNOME tend to set
$LANG to something along these lines. The problem seems to occur
whenever you have language_dialect; so 'fr' is okay, but 'fr_FR'
breaks. This behaviour is not mentioned in the manual page or the info
documentation, as far as I can tell.
I'm not really sure why sort is looking at $LANG at all - it's not a
tool which users expect to be locale-aware. Surely it should just sort
8-bit characters the way it always has, unless the user specifically
asks for something else. Also, the sorting order has become
inconsistent with other programs like GNU ls.
--
Ed Avis
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