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and subject line Re: Bug#884943: Sort should support an option --machine-sort
or --byte-sort
has caused the Debian Bug report #884943,
regarding Weird result of `sort` if not LC_LOCALE=C is used – concerning e.g.
the letter '-'
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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.25-2ubuntu3~16.0 (from xenial-updates)
If not `LC_ALL=C` is set, the sort result is weird.
Please inspect this sample code:
cat <<EOF | sort --unique --debug
a-ab
aac
a-ac
EOF
Running it with `LC_ALL=C` everything is fine:
> sort: using simple byte comparison
> a-ab
> ____
> a-ac
> ____
> aac
> ___
>
But switching to en_US.UTF-8 or de_DE.UTF-8 I got the broken result:
> sort: using
> a-ab
> ____
> aac
> ___
> a-ac
> ____
>
So any algorithm or script which depends on a stable sorted order will
fail.
As a mitigation I tried `LC_COLLATE=C` but still the ‘en_US.UTF-8’
sorting rules will be used :-/
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:48:00PM +0100, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote:
Reason for the lost time and this bug report is the bad/missing
documentation. → That is a real bug!
At the bottom of the man page is a note saying that the full
documentation is in the info page, and helpfully even provides an http
link to same (since so many people don't want to read the info page).
Guess what you'll find at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort
If you have a suggestion for a different wording please provide it. You
might also take a look at
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
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