Hi, Some time ago I discoverd a problem with sort (from textutils). It doesn't work for me :(. Maintainger of textutils package wrote me that is problem only with my (pl_PL) locale. After that he discovered that even en_AU locale is broken.
This bug (#69544) has been reassigned to libc6. Today I've trying (in bash): ls /dev/tty[a-z]0 and answer has unexpected /dev/ttyI0 and /dev/ttyS0 followed by /dev/tty[a-z]0 entries. Than I wrote simple script (attached at the end) to generate file with characters from 0000 to 0377 range (one per line with octal number, like: c101=A). Than it seeks (using grep) for [a-c] range with all locales (locale -a) and counts lines. Only locales listed below give count=3 (this may be also not correct): C ca cs da de el en eo eo_EO es es_AR es_DO es_GT es_HN es_MX es_PA es_PE es_SV et eu fi fr ga gl gl_ES hr hu id it ja ja_JP.sjis ja_JP.ujis japanese japanese.euc ko lt nl no [EMAIL PROTECTED] pl POSIX pt ro ru sk sl sr sv tr uk wa X zh zh_CN zh_TW.Big5 All other give different values. For 'pl_PL' count is 15, proper value is 4 (a a_ogonek b c) also 3 (a b c) could be acceptable. 'de' gives 3 but 'de_*' and 'deutsch' give also 20 - as I know proper value is 4 (a a_umlaut b c). I think that even all 'en_*' locales are broken (count=20), proper value should be 3. I'll fill grave bug against libc6 - it breaks all potato - I'm stupid? Please comment. Mirek
#!/bin/bash unset LANG unset LC_ALL unset LC_CHARSET unset LC_COLLATE unset LC_CTYPE unset LC_MESSAGES unset LC_MONETARY unset LC_NUMERIC unset LC_TIME for c in `seq 0 3`; do for b in `seq 0 7`; do for a in `seq 0 7`; do echo -e c$c$b$a=\\$c$b$a done; done; done >/tmp/char.list for l in `locale -a`; do export LANG=$l c=`grep -a '=[a-c]' /tmp/char.list |wc -l` echo $c $l; done > /tmp/lang.list