> There's very little support for LOCALE settings in Cygwin. Some
> applications will switch the language of the help messages, etc, to the
> extent gettext() supports it. I don't believe sort has locale-specific
> collate support -- the coreutils maintainer might be a better person to
> answer that.
Sort requires a working strcoll to do locale-dependent sorts. But newlib
(cygwin's library) provides only a strcoll that is HARD-CODED to the "POSIX"
("C") locale. Gettext allows localized help messages (LC_MESSAGES generally
works on programs compiled with gettext, coreutils included), but does nothing
for the other aspects of locales (such as LC_COLLATE). In other words, unless
someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant strcoll, you are stuck with
non-locale sorts on cygwin. Sorry.
--
Eric Blake
cygwin coreutils maintainer
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