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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.2
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/sort
The following is a snipet of the output from sort with no options (which
should sort the entire line):
"\x1B[D","cub1","visa50"
"\x1BD","cud1","ims_ansi"
"\x1BD","cud1","ims_ansi"
"\x1BD","cud1","ims_ansi"
"\x1BD","cud1","wy99a_ansi"
"\x1BD","cud1","wy99_ansi"
"\x1BD","ind","ansi77"
"\x1BD","ind","iris_ansi"
"\x1BD","ind","iris_ansi"
"\x1BD","ind","iris_ansi_ap"
"\x1BD","ind","iris_color"
"\x1BD","ind","iris_color"
"\x1BD","ind","mai"
"\x1BD","ind","mai"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a_kc_uc"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a_kc_uc"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a_nkc_bc"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a_nkc_bc"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a_nkc_uc"
"\x1BD","ind","z29a_nkc_uc"
"\x1B[D","kbs","dg460_ansi"
Sort is ignoring the "[" character and producing incorrectly sorted output.
And as another bug report mentioned, sort really needs an ASCII order. But
even without ASCII collating order, every character should be significant
unless explictly stated otherwise.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.42-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:31:13PM -0500, Mark Whitis wrote:
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.2
Severity: important
This isn't important. Please don't abuse the severity levels; important
doesn't mean "I care about this and you should too".
Sort is ignoring the "[" character and producing incorrectly sorted output.
No, sort is ignoring the [ and producing correctly sorted output. The
rules of your currently selected locale indicate that punctuation should
be ignored when sorting by dictionary order. If you don't like that,
convince the maintainer of your locale that your locale actually has
different sorting rules. (I suspect that effort will not succeed,
because that isn't generally true.) If you want a non-dictionary ascii
sort use LANG=C or at least LC_COLLATE=C
Mike Stone
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