Package: coreutils Version: 8.25 / 8.26 Severity: wishlist The sort behaviour depends deeply on the LC_COLLATE settings. See e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884943
This behaviour is not documented in the primary documentation provided by `sort --help` or `man sort`. This sometimes weird behaviour is documented only in a footnote of https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/sort-invocation .html and in a FAQ page https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/core utils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021. It would be an improvement if a „clean“ „simple byte comparison“ would be provided via a new option `--machine-sort`. This would provide a much clearer „API“ and intuitive documentation.
