Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > Attached is a file, that, when sort -u'ed in my locale, looses lines
> > which are however unique.
> >
> > I've also attached the locale, since it's a custom made one, but the
> > same seem to happen with "standard" locales as well, see
Hey Pádraig
On Sat, 2015-11-14 at 11:06 +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Unfortunately the roman numeral code points compare equal:
>
> $ printf '%s\n' Ⅱ Ⅰ | ltrace -e strcoll sort
> sort->strcoll("\342\205\241", "\342\205\240") = 0
> Ⅱ
> Ⅰ
>
> If you compare at the byte level you'll get
Oh one further solution:
- document more properly in the manpage and --help, what -u really is,
and especially that it may not behave as expected, with other
locales/collations.
Perhaps even giving an example, so that people understand the
seriousness of that.
- add companion option, maybe -U,
tag 21916 notabug
close 21916
stop
On 14/11/15 05:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hey.
>
> (GNU coreutils 8.23)
>
> Attached is a file, that, when sort -u'ed in my locale, looses lines
> which are however unique.
>
> I've also attached the locale, since it's a custom made one, but the
>
