>> [...]
> That's problematic.
> Is your locale ar_SA? as that's the only one
> on my system that triggers:
My locale is fr_FR.utf8
> for loc in $(locale -a | grep -vF .); do
> echo $loc; printf "%s\n" 2 1 . | LC_ALL=$loc sort
> done | grep 1 -B1 | grep _
>
> Note the ar_SA case may be just a bug in glibc's LC_COLLATE
> definition for that locale?
Yes, but give a try to:
for loc in $(locale -a | grep -vF .); do
echo $loc; printf "%s\n" .b a. | LC_ALL=$loc sort
done| grep a. -B1 | grep _
In most of the case, 'a.' will be sorted before '.b'
Cheers,
Jérémy
