Control: retitle -1 sort with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 instead of LC_ALL=C.
Control: severity -1 minor

On Sun, 13 Sep 2026, Akkana Peck wrote:n
> Apparently the sorter ignores all accented characters and sorts
> according to the remaining characters in the word.

That's correct; it's sorted with LC_ALL=C sort -d currently.

There's an argument that since it's UTF-8, it should actually be
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 sort -d.

I'll go ahead and do that the next time I make a release of scowl.


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