Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > $ cat X > a a > a c > ab c > $ cat X | LC_COLLATE=C sort
Ordered based upon the underlying ASCII data encoding of the characters. > a a > a c > ab c > $ cat X | LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.UTF-8 sort > a a > ab c > a c Ordered based upon what the pl_PL locale ordering of the characters. Try the -k option. I think you will be happier with the result. cat X | LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.UTF-8 sort -k1,1 a a a c ab c > This is not lexicographic. It is as defined by the pl_PL locale. In that locale setting (and other non-standard locales) punctuation and whitespace are ignored and case is folded. (And no I don't like it either.) > There's no consistent ordering between b and space. In the pl_PL locale the space is ignored. cat X | LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.UTF-8 sort | tr -d ' ' aa abc ac After you remove the spaces the ordering of pl_PL ignoring spaces is more apparent. You are asking for spaces and punctuation to have a declared ordered in the pl_PL (and others) locale. But that is out of our hands. Nothing we can do about it here. It is now a standards conformance issue. The locale data tables that drive this and grep and awk and and other commands are part of libc. I suggest that you set your locale to C and avoid all of these locale dependent problems. > Characters may be ordered in any locale-dependent way, but the lines > should be sorted consistently or bad things will happen. Your statement is in conflict with itself. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
