Re: strcoll problem?

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <address@hidden>
> > Date: 15 Mar 2002 16:34:08 GMT
> > 
> > sort treats whitespace as column separators, by default.
> 
> But you need to specify an option to get that behavior.  He was using
> 'sort' With no options, and in that case 'sort' sorts the entire input
> line, including white space.

Looks like some locale's definition of collation order already imply -b by
themselves.  Here's a test run on a RetHat Linux 6.1 box:

~> env LC_ALL=de_DE sort in
 RR
rrr
 ss
 SS
sss
 tt
 TT
ttt
~> sort --version
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