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console the user that his -n in sort --debug -n was seen |
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Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:21:37 +0800 |
Can you please have assure the user in that message it makes
that it has indeed seen his -n/--numeric-sort.
$ sort --debug
sort: using simple byte comparison
$ sort --debug --numeric-sort
sort: using simple byte comparison
^^^^ unchanged. User gets nervous.
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.30. Sorry we discussed this before but kinda hard to
find...
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Re: bug#34490: console the user that his -n in sort --debug -n was seen |
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Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:11:51 -0800 |
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On 16/02/19 23:28, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>>>>>> "PB" == Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> PB> Fair point. I'm thinking of this extra qualification:
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> PB> sort: text ordering performed using ‘en_IE.UTF-8’ sorting rules
> Maybe say ^^^^^^^^^^^^'LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8'
> sorting rules
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> PB> sort: text ordering performed using simple byte comparison
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> sort: text ordering performed using simple byte (LC_CTYPE=C) comparison
> or something like that.
That's probably more confusing to the user,
especially as one doesn't generally explicitly set LC_CTYPE.
I'll go with my clarification.
thanks,
Pádraig
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