Re: Bug in the sort utility

2010-03-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/08/2010 03:39 PM, Warner Mike - miwarn wrote: > We came across something that appears to be a bug as opposed to an > unintended design feature. Most likely, it is neither a bug nor an unintended feature, but a documented feature of locale specifications. > > I am expecting the output to co

Re: Bug in the sort utility

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Warner Mike - miwarn wrote: > We came across something that appears to be a bug as opposed to an > unintended design feature. Thank you for the bug report. However what you are seeing is intended behavior. It isn't something sort has control over. The character collation sequence is chosen by y

Re: Bug in the sort utility

2010-03-08 Thread Alan Curry
Warner Mike - miwarn writes: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01CABF10.3624B78B > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoted-Unreadable. Minus 10 points. > I am expecting the output to come out in A

RE: Bug in the sort utility

2010-03-08 Thread Warner Mike - miwarn
I should have included some information about the system that we are using: miw...@avalanche:/home/miwarn> uname -a Linux avalanche.corp.acxiom.net 2.6.9-89.0.11.ELlargesmp #1 SMP Mon Aug 31 11:05:24 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux miw...@avalanche:/home/miwarn> more /etc/redhat-relea