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bug#47858: Document that FULLWIDTH DIGITs boggle coreutils brain current


From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Subject: bug#47858: Document that FULLWIDTH DIGITs boggle coreutils brain currently
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 08:09:24 +0800

(info "(coreutils) Correct/Incorrect ordering and Expected/Unexpected results")
needs to "admit" or "at least mention" that "coreutils just hasn't thought 
about FULLWIDTH
DIGITs yet." I.e., Europeans are in luck. East Asians are out of luck.

$ seq 9 11|sort
10
11
9
$ seq 9 11|sort -n
9
10
11
$ seq 9 11|sort -V
9
10
11

$ echo -e 9\\n10\\n11|sort
10
11
9
$ echo -e 9\\n10\\n11|sort -V
10
11
9
$ echo -e 9\\n10\\n11|sort -n
10
11
9

$ unicode 9
U+FF19 FULLWIDTH DIGIT NINE
UTF-8: ef bc 99 UTF-16BE: ff19 Decimal: 9 Octal: \0177431
9
Category: Nd (Number, Decimal Digit); East Asian width: F (fullwidth)
Unicode block: FF00..FFEF; Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Numeric value: 9
Digit value: 9
Bidi: EN (European Number)

Decomposition: <wide> 0039

Nope, LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 didn't help.
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.32





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