On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:
>
> > I wonder should we flag the common case on exit with something like:
> >
> > if (only_ascii_read && LC_COLLATE!="C" && !LC_ALL) {
> > fprintf(stderr, "Warning, sorting ASCII data in non C locale\n");
>
> Nice thought. But it would violate POSIX if done by default, and doing it by
> other that default would require the invention of a new option - and what are
> the chances that a newbie is going to be aware of the existence of a new GNU-
> specific flag?
>
> I think we're stuck with educating people about POSIX via a FAQ.
We could perhaps do something for the "sort -c" case. But failing
that, perhaps we could exit with status 0.000001 or (0+1i) :)
James.
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