bug#51011: [GNU sort] Numerical sort with delimiter may be broken (bug)

2021-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 10/9/21 5:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 09/10/2021 04:48, Paul Eggert wrote: 'sort' could determine the group sizes from the locale, and reject digit strings that are formatted improperly according to the group-size rules. (Not that I plan to write the code to do that) Yes I agree th

bug#51011: [GNU sort] Numerical sort with delimiter may be broken (bug)

2021-10-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/10/2021 04:48, Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/8/21 7:32 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: it's not a thousands separator, rather a grouping character, and groups can be in 2, 3, 4, and even 5. Sure, but 'sort' could determine the group sizes from the locale, and reject digit strings that are formatted