Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: normal

sort -g foo

where foo contains

4.161794e-22
3.576523e-13
5.129078e-02
3.068035e-08
3.504910e-12
7.579623e-02
3.093938e-02
1.286960e-04


returns

1.286960e-04
3.068035e-08
3.093938e-02
3.504910e-12
3.576523e-13
4.161794e-22
5.129078e-02
7.579623e-02

Numbers in scientific notation are sorted by prefix, what is not correct.
This happens when [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not when LANG is unset.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                     2.2.41-1     Access control list shared
library
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                 1.32-3       SELinux shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information




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