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Re: bug#6327: sort fails on some UTF-8 input


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: bug#6327: sort fails on some UTF-8 input
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:27:56 +0200

River Tarnell wrote:
> I'm using coreutils 8.5 on Solaris 10.
>
> GNU 'sort' fails to sort some input, while Solaris 'sort' handles it
> correctly:
>
> willow% /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort sort_test.txt
> /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
> /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
> /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: The strings compared were
> `\360\222\203\276\360\222\205\226' and
> `\360\222\200\255\360\222\213\253\360\222\213\253\360\222\200\255'.
> willow% /usr/bin/sort sort_test.txt
> π’ƒΎπ’…–
> π’€­π’‹«π’‹«π’€­
> willow%
>
> I've attached the example file sort_test.txt.

Thanks for the report.
Since this appears not to be due to any problem
with GNU sort per se, but rather with solaris'
strcoll implementation, I'm closing this coreutils "issue"
and Cc'ing bug-gnulib, in case someone there wants to
pursue the strcoll-replacement approach.



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