-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Boris New on 3/31/2005 1:54 PM: > Hi, > > I send you the zip file with the two files. I tested a lot of windows > port and all have this problem. I thought it was perhaps due to locale > on windows. > The format is the same and files are sorted. Everything is ok if I > remove accentuated words from rand.txt.
Contrary to your assertion, your files were not sorted. Or put another way, they weren't sorted by the same rules that join expected. There are some locales that treat é and e as the same collating character, but the C locale that is the default of cygwin is not one of them. Hence, join gave up after the first line where the sorting failed to match its expectations. Run the following to show this: $ sort < rand.txt > randsort.txt $ diff rand.txt randsort.txt Only if the diff turns up no change on both files will join work like you want, for the locale you are using. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCTL1D84KuGfSFAYARAud5AJ0ZzqemqItQ3oTcMiYqz08dtojsyQCeNe/O n5V+udbdLBKFEbW/Qg8pOGU= =pvms -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils