[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6327: closed (sort fails on some UTF-8 input)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: sort fails on some UTF-8 input Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:51:25 +0100 User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

I'm using coreutils 8.5 on Solaris 10.

GNU 'sort' fails to sort some input, while Solaris 'sort' handles it
correctly:

willow% /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort sort_test.txt 
/opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
/opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
/opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: The strings compared were
`\360\222\203\276\360\222\205\226' and
`\360\222\200\255\360\222\213\253\360\222\213\253\360\222\200\255'.
willow% /usr/bin/sort sort_test.txt 
𒃾𒅖
𒀭𒋫𒋫𒀭
willow% 

I've attached the example file sort_test.txt.

        - river.

sort_test.txt
Description: Text document

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> Re: bug#6327: sort fails on some UTF-8 input
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> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:27:56 +0200
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> River Tarnell wrote:
> > I'm using coreutils 8.5 on Solaris 10.
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> > GNU 'sort' fails to sort some input, while Solaris 'sort' handles it
> > correctly:
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> > willow% /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort sort_test.txt
> > /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
> > /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
> > /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: The strings compared were
> > `\360\222\203\276\360\222\205\226' and
> > `\360\222\200\255\360\222\213\253\360\222\213\253\360\222\200\255'.
> > willow% /usr/bin/sort sort_test.txt
> > 𒃾𒅖
> > 𒀭𒋫𒋫𒀭
> > willow%
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> > I've attached the example file sort_test.txt.
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> Thanks for the report.
> Since this appears not to be due to any problem
> with GNU sort per se, but rather with solaris'
> strcoll implementation, I'm closing this coreutils "issue"
> and Cc'ing bug-gnulib, in case someone there wants to
> pursue the strcoll-replacement approach.
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