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Re: Bugreport 'sort'
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Bugreport 'sort' |
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Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:03:43 +0000 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:
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>> I wonder should we flag the common case on exit with something like:
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>> if (only_ascii_read && LC_COLLATE!="C" && !LC_ALL) {
>> fprintf(stderr, "Warning, sorting ASCII data in non C locale\n");
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> Nice thought. But it would violate POSIX if done by default
POSIX says you can't warn users about potential problems?
Pádraig.