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According to Eric Stockman on 1/9/2008 4:37 AM: | dear Eric , | Thanks a lot for the quick reply . | I added an " export LC_ALL=POSIX " in my .bash_aliases file and now | "sort" works as expected. | I still don't understand why . I'm using the English version of Ubuntu | see the next extracts from 'env' | --- | PWD=/home/eric | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 That's exactly why. As the FAQ explained, different locales have different collation (sorting) rules. It is the LC_COLLATE env-var (which defaults to LANG, but is overridden by LC_ALL) that controls this particular aspect of sort's behavior. And the en_US.UTF-8 collation rules prefers a dictionary sort (where certain punctuation characters compare equal) over the byte-wise value sort (which is what you get with the C locale; note that I generally use the identical LC_ALL=C as it is less typing than LC_ALL=POSIX). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhNCa84KuGfSFAYARAlaVAKDM/49q1F7Sj1EcpngTqv/1mXfkkACcC72Q jHFcFYbvlwT202DghFjbSK4= =HWxq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
