bug in sort with '.' in strings

[Michael J. Dinneen]

Hi,

Sort seems to ignore (incorrectly handle) the character '.' in the 
strings.  The following output is what I get with:

$ sort --version
sort (coreutils) 4.5.3
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.


qbits.18.out
qbits.19.out
qbits.20.out
qbits2.10.out
qbits2.11.out
qbits2.12.out
qbits2.13.out
qbits2.14.out
qbits2.15.out
qbits2.16.out
qbits2.17.out
qbits2.18.out
qbits2.19.out
qbits.21.out     <--- look here
qbits2.20.out
qbits2.21.out
qbits2.22.out
qbits2.23.out
qbits2.24.out
qbits.22.out     <--- and here
qbits.23.out

I would expect all of the 'qbits.*' to be either before or after
all of the 'qbits2.*' in the above output.

Michael