[Cialug] Dude, Where's My Sort?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

The original message looked like it included the full-width versions of
the numbers. Sort knows about Unicode and should sort those just fine.
(Even if it doesn't know Unicode it should sort them, as i believe the
binary representations of those would sort naturally.) And it does work
on my machine (GNU sort 8.30).

$ printf '%s\n' ２ １ | sort
１
２

On 3/26/20 11:23 AM, Scott Yates wrote:
> Ya, those are not actual ascii numbers.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:16 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> You've pasted some odd characters there for your numbers...
>>
>> Retyped and it works.
>>
>> $ printf '%s\n' 2 1 | sort
>> 1
>> 2
>>
>> -dc
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:06 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Check it out:
>>>
>>> [prompt]$ sort --version
>>> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.22
>>> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
>>> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>>>> .
>>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>>
>>> Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
>>>
>>> [prompt]$ printf '%s\n' ２ １ | sort
>>> ２
>>> １
>>>
>>> It didn't sort.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Todd
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