[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Taking this example again:
>
> grep "konnect 1" Out_konnect | sort --key=4 -n
>
> "konnect 1" is a fixed ascii string, hence
> grep can automatically do LANG=C and -F

It cannot do the former.  There are encodings where bytes that look like
plain ASCII are in fact part of a multibyte sequence.  But it may be
worthwhile to special case UTF-8 which does not have this problem.

Andreas.

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