Bob Manson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I guess this is more of a suggestion. I'm running RedHat 6.1 on an intel
| box.
[sort doesn't work properly when LC_ALL is set to en_US]
| I know how to get around this (at least *now* I do) by unsetting the
| LC_ALL environment variable, or setting it to C. But I sort of expected
| that having that variable set to en_US would make sort behave like the
| sort we've used for so many years.
|
| Could you think about adding a flag that would make sort ignore
| environment variables and just do the sort according to the ascii table?
You can already do that by configuring textutils with the --disable-nls
option: ./configure --disable-nls && make
But maybe you want a run-time option?
I'm not inclined to add a run-time option just to keep GNU sort
from using invalid locale data on certain types of systems.
