On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 12:28:08PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > Those take no floating point input that I can see. For sort, > > its only use of floats would be sorting files containing them, > > for which (I assume) one would want and expect the file > > to be a locale specific format, and for sort to recognise > > the floats in a locale specific way. > > This is where I disagree. In my opinion (of a native user of ",") - > parsing locale specific input for such programs doesn't make sense.
As another user of such a locale: I disagree, it makes perfect sense to get properly numerically sorted output from sort if I specify the correct locale. I do a lot of financial stuff in sh, awk and various other base system commands and sometimes input data comes from external sources. Martin