Here is a patch to make NetBSD's sort(1) sort by the locale's collating order. The table should not be called ascii[] anymore, but I can't think of a better one, and supplying a patch to change the name would be pointless.
It works. It assumes the string strxfrm() outputs is the same length as its input, which is always possible, and true on FreeBSD. $ env LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 sort <test.fr | rs Čte elle $ env LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 ./sort <test.fr | rs Čte elle $ rs <test.fr elle Čte Enjoy (?) Tim Index: init.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/contrib/sort/init.c,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 init.c --- init.c 2002/04/07 00:49:00 1.2 +++ init.c 2002/04/07 10:29:59 @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ #endif /* not lint */ #include <ctype.h> +#include <err.h> #include <string.h> static void insertcol __P((struct field *)); @@ -291,8 +292,7 @@ * Note: when sorting in forward order, to encode character zero in a key, * use \001\001; character 1 becomes \001\002. In this case, character 0 * is reserved for the field delimiter. Analagously for -r (fld_d = 255). - * Note: this is only good for ASCII sorting. For different LC 's, - * all bets are off. See also num_init in number.c + * See also num_init in number.c */ void settables(gflags) @@ -300,8 +300,20 @@ { u_char *wts; int i, incr; + static int warned; + char abuf[2], xbuf[8]; + + abuf[1] = '\0'; for (i=0; i < 256; i++) { - ascii[i] = i; + if (i != 0) { + *abuf = i; + if (strxfrm(xbuf, abuf, sizeof(xbuf)) > 1 && !warned) { + warnx("collating order too complicated"); + warned = 1; + } + ascii[i] = *xbuf; + } else + ascii[i] = 0; if (i > REC_D && i < 255 - REC_D+1) Rascii[i] = 255 - i + 1; else To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message