bug#35343: sort: printing characters: define

2019-04-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well all I know is e.g., perl's man perlrecharclass is more detailed than (info "(coreutils) Character sets") section, (which (info "(coreutils) sort invocation") perhaps should also link to.) Anyways, coreutils should at least link to a definite statement...

bug#35343: sort: printing characters: define

2019-04-25 Thread L A Walsh
On 4/20/2019 6:54 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > (info "(coreutils) sort invocation") says > > ‘-i’ > ‘--ignore-nonprinting’ > Ignore nonprinting characters. The ‘LC_CTYPE’ locale determines > character types... > @ location: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.

bug#35343: sort: printing characters: define

2019-04-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
(info "(coreutils) sort invocation") says ‘-i’ ‘--ignore-nonprinting’ Ignore nonprinting characters. The ‘LC_CTYPE’ locale determines character types... Well this leaves the user high and dry trying to figure out what you mean by printing characters. Is SPC a printing character he won