bug#8394: unexpected behaviour of "sort -n"

[Toralf Förster]

I'm wondering about the output b/c Im missing 2 strings :

$> echo "X y z 1 2 3" | xargs -n 1 | sort -n -u
X
1
2
3

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Toralf Förster
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