[Cialug] Dude, Where's My Sort?

[David Champion]

Was your intent to sort non-ascii characters?

Gotta take care when you cut and paste from Word or web pages, you'll get
goofy fancy quotes and other garbage that your shell script won't like.

-dc

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 12:57 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Todd
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