forcemerge 139861 649729 thanks Alex Shinn wrote: > As the link states, it's pretty clearly a bug - the correct behavior > would be to sort the unknown characters after all known characters > and consider them distinct. As a workaround, adding values for > all characters to every locale file in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ should > work.
See also this issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139861 It is a known deficiency in coreutils that the utilities are not multibyte aware. The following can be found in the upstream source package TODO file. Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be multibyte aware. The problem is that I want to avoid duplicating significant blocks of logic, yet I also want to incur only minimal (preferably `no') cost when operating in single-byte mode. Some vendors have hacked in patches to make the utilities multibyte aware but none of those patches have been considered clean enough to incorporate into the upstream source yet. Debian's maintainer has stated that he does not want to diverge from upstream this radically. The patches are very messy and incomplete. The best course of action would be to get this resolved upstream with the functionally properly integrated. Until then this remains a known deficiency. Bob
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