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Re: collation with glibc
From: |
David Duffy |
Subject: |
Re: collation with glibc |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:24:22 +1000 (EST) |
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> BTW, my experiments showed that the "safe" locale was, surprisingly,
> en_UK, not en_US. See my post of 9 Dec 1999 re "Linux collation
> problems".
>
> Exercise: Try sorting with sort(1) the following two lines. Exaplain
> the results.
When I wrote to the maintainer of GNU sort about this behaviour, he
suggested setting the locale to "POSIX". This also avoids the
problem (the Lout manual is produced in 6 iterations by 3.17
running under Mandrake 7.0). But should one encourage POSIX compliance
too much? ;)
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