Not broken. Turns out to be a locale-instigated behavior that is known and
defined. I am sorry for wasting your time, but perhaps some redhat 5 and
earlier as well as other unix users would like to know how.
-Matt
% cat input
AA A
A AB
% setenv LC_ALL en_US
% locale
LANG=<something>
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US
% cat input | sort
AA A
A AB
% setenv LC_ALL POSIX
% locale
LANG=<something>
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_ALL=POSIX
% cat input | sort
A AB
AA A
Matthew Siegler
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