bug#23677: sort --debug not ignoring punctuation when sort does

[Assaf Gordon]

close 23677
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2016-06-02 4:09 p.m., Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/02/2016 03:28 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> >      They are not ignored, just considered only secondary, if the first
> >      order characters didn't provide an ordering.
> >
> > Ok.  One would have no clue of that, either, from the --debug output.
> >
> > sort obviously knows the exact rules defined by the locale, or it
> > couldn't do its job.
>
> sort merely calls strcoll(); all the rules are a black box to sort, and
> are really something that you have to know how strcoll() uses locale
> definitions.
>
> >   How about a way to dump the rules in some
> > human-readable way?  (In sort or another utility or a separate program
> > or whatever.)  Similar to how James Youngman found a way to write out
> > regex definitions in Texinfo ... just a wish ... -karl
>
> It might be nicer to request the glibc folks to give human-readable
> descriptions of their locale files, and how strcoll() is affected by
> those definitions, since it is more than just sort(1) that is impacted.

With no further follow-ups in 2 years,
I'm closing this bug.
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-assaf