Hello! I tried to sort a file containing the lines [X].Y [X].W [XZ] [XX] and got confused when sort returned [X].W [XX] [X].Y [XZ] rather than [XX] [XZ] [X].W [X].Y where the [X] values where kept together.
It seems that the problem is that my locale (en_US.utf8) specifies that punctuation, like [, ], and ., is insignificant. This is actually very close to what the -d flag to sort does but in my case it is just confusing. * Would it be possible to have a flag that tells sort to treat all input characters as unique entities and just compare their values? * Would it be possible to combine that flag with the ignore case flag or does input characters where case transformation adds multiple characters kill that idea? * Would it be possible to have a flag that tells sort to just perform an octet comparision, similar to 'LC_ALL=C sort' but slightly more ergonomic? /MF
