[Cialug] Dude, Where's My Sort?

[Todd Walton]

LC_ALL=
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"


On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:52 PM Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
wrote:

> I did a bit more testing and tried it on some older machines that i have
> access to. Sort works correctly with GNU sort versions 8.4 and 8.13.
>
> What are the locale settings on the machine where it doesn't work?
> Particularly, what are LC_COLLATE and LC_ALL set to?
>
> On 3/26/20 11:34 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> > 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
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