Re: collation with glibc

[David Duffy]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> BTW, my experiments showed that the "safe" locale was, surprisingly,
> en_UK, not en_US.  See my post of 9 Dec 1999 re "Linux collation
> problems".
> 
> Exercise: Try sorting with sort(1) the following two lines.  Exaplain
>         the results.

When I wrote to the maintainer of GNU sort about this behaviour, he
suggested setting the locale to "POSIX".  This also avoids the
problem (the Lout manual is produced in 6 iterations by 3.17
running under Mandrake 7.0).  But should one encourage POSIX compliance
too much? ;)

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