[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8124: closed (sort utilty?)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: sort utilty? Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:28:08 -0600 (CST) User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) I have used the "unix" sort for years without trouble, but suddenly something weird is happening. I have a student whose last name is Khan, and a student whose last name is Khanal,. The comma immediately follows the last name. Obviously Khan should be sorted before Khanal, both from the English standpoint and based on the ASCI code for a comma. But it is not. Khanal comes first. Why? (The two files I have attached are the unsorted version (khan.txt) and the one produced by

sort +0.0  -0.14 khan.txt >khan.out

                         Dr. Betty Barr,
                         University of Houston

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#8124: sort utilty? Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:21:10 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7

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On 02/28/2011 09:05 AM, Betty J. Barr wrote:
>> Because you are using a locale that regards punctuation as insignificant
>> in collation sequences.
>>
>> See this FAQ, then try 'LC_ALL=C sort ...' to see the difference.
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

> Thank you. Setting the environment did work. Since I am at the mercy of
> our IT people in terms of versions and updates, it was just a shock when
> something I had used for years did not work.

Glad to hear it.  Yes, it is rather a shock when upgrading a system
changes the default locale to something different than it was before,
with all sorts of knock-on effects that many people are not expecting;
but it's nothing that coreutils can change other than to help teach
people about the effect of locale settings.

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