Hi Bob and James, Thank you, guys. Quite professional answer, very informative:)
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Youngman wrote: > > It looks to me like you probably just have locate settings that you don't > like:- > > > > ~$ sort -t " " -k 1 < Desktop/T > > ...versus... > > ~$ LC_ALL=C sort -t " " -k 1 < Desktop/T > > I have the following in my $HOME/.bashrc file. > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > export LC_COLLATE=C > > The documentation says: > > Unless otherwise specified, all comparisons use the character > collating sequence specified by the `LC_COLLATE' locale.(1) > ... > (1) If you use a non-POSIX locale (e.g., by setting `LC_ALL' to > `en_US'), then `sort' may produce output that is sorted differently > than you're accustomed to. In that case, set the `LC_ALL' environment > variable to `C'. Note that setting only `LC_COLLATE' has two problems. > First, it is ineffective if `LC_ALL' is also set. Second, it has > undefined behavior if `LC_CTYPE' (or `LANG', if `LC_CTYPE' is unset) is > set to an incompatible value. For example, you get undefined behavior > if `LC_CTYPE' is `ja_JP.PCK' but `LC_COLLATE' is `en_US.UTF-8'. > > Bob > -- Thanks, Chen Jiusheng _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
