Fwd: Bug#56195: en_US (also en_CA) do other weird things to sortorder

[Joel Klecker <espy at debian dot org>]

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I'm not sure if this is "strange" sort order or not.

>Subject: Bug#56195: en_US (also en_CA) do other weird things to sort order
>Reply-To: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@linuxcare.com>, 56195@bugs.debian.org
>To: 56195@bugs.debian.org
>From: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@linuxcare.com>
>Date: 20 Mar 2000 12:25:40 -0500
>
>This also breaks things like the gawk test suite, which doesn't set
>LANG=C before running 'sort' on the output of some tests.
>
>In particular, you get odd sort orders like:
>
>[dhd@doppelbock]:~$ LANG=C
>[dhd@doppelbock]:~$ cat > testfile
>- A
>0 A
>[dhd@doppelbock]:~$ sort testfile
>- A
>0 A
>[dhd@doppelbock]:~$ LANG=en_CA
>[dhd@doppelbock]:~$ sort testfile
>0 A
>- A
>
>But look:
>
>[dhd@doppelbock]:~$ cat > testfile
>-
>0
>[dhd@doppelbock]:~$ sort testfile
>-
>0
>
>Figuring out the purpose of this is left as an exercise to the
>reader...
>
>Arguably, the blame should be laid on people who expect 'sort' to give
>consistent output without making sure LANG is set to a specified
>value.
>
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)       <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
Debian Package Maintainer for the GNU C Library.