On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 05:53:01PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Thanks for the report. If you had not mentioned Debian I would have > immediately jumped to the conclusion presented in this FAQ. But > Debian does not set LANG by default without the user being informed of > it and you would be the first to have reported this problem on a > Debian based system. And believe me a lot of people have reported > this required behavior as a problem!
Bob, thanks for your prompt reply. In fact the "bug" was so evident that I myself suspected that it must be due to something other than sort, but I didn't really know where else to look for, especially after having verified that the older sort worked correctly. Silly me who didn't do a web search in the first place. > >http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/#Sort%20does%20not%20sorting%20in%20normal%20order! > That really points to a locale problem. What is the output of the > 'locale' command in your environment? This is what I see on my > Debian system. None of these are set in my environment and so this is > showing the default. > > locale > LANG=POSIX > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= Alright, and here's mine: LANG=en_IE LC_CTYPE="en_IE" LC_NUMERIC="en_IE" LC_TIME="en_IE" LC_COLLATE="en_IE" LC_MONETARY="en_IE" LC_MESSAGES="en_IE" LC_PAPER="en_IE" LC_NAME="en_IE" LC_ADDRESS="en_IE" LC_TELEPHONE="en_IE" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IE" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IE" LC_ALL= Of course it was me who set 'LANG=en_IE' in /etc/environment, without really knowing about possible collateral effects :-). My apologies for that. Now I set it to POSIX and sort works fine again. Thanks for your time, Carlo -- For easier reading please set the Courier font. Messages larger than 30 KB may not receive immediate attention. Freedom for Business: http://swpat.ffii.org _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
