At 06:13 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
>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.

<snip>

>In other words, unless someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant 
>strcoll, you are stuck with non-locale sorts on cygwin. 


Don't you mean that newlib is the one that requires the patch?


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