Re: Localization based problem with sort

[The Wanderer]

James Youngman wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:

> > > Also, just as you didn't know about the LC_COLLATE option, the
> > > rest of the world will not know about the new options, either, so
> > > these don't seem to present much of an advantage.
> >
> > Well, options are usually documented in the manual pages. Also the
> > documentation can contain any additional notes about portability
> > issues when using the option (or not using it). And BTW the docs
> > could also have a note about LC_COLLATE changing sort ordering
> > totally.
>
> They already do, though.  On my system, such a note appears both in
> the Texinfo documentation and in the manual page.

On my system (Debian, coreutils 5.93-5), it is not in the manual page.
It is present in the info page, as accessible through 'info coreutils
sort' - but since there is nothing to tell the uninformed user to look
there (instead of under 'info sort', which is referenced in the man page
but is identical to the man page), that isn't necessarily sufficient.

Note that the man page in question is essentially a *roff-formatted
version of the 'sort --help' output, which I gather from my limited past
experiences to be the intended way of producing a man page for any
coreutils program.

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