On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, James K. Lowden wrote: > It's an interesting problem. If you enter: > > dia --credits |sort > > how is sort(1) supposed to know what's incoming? It doesn't guess; it > assumes, and unless the answer is 7-bit ascii, it assumes wrong. Its > only defense is, it's got a lot of good company.
Actually, czyborra mentions as one of the strengths of utf-8 that you can run it through an old-style sort and get the same sorting as on UCS-4 chars. Very good run-through, though hard to read in places. Finally rid me of confusing Unicode and UTF-8. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
