Re: [Fwd: sort (coreutils) 4.5.3]

[Paul Jarc]

Bobby L Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since  the Perl sort function works correctly, is it possible that
> the problem could be in the way the sort command interacts
> with the LANG environment instead of the LANG environment
> itself  ?  With Perl I did not have to change LANG;

Perl's sort simply ignores LANG.  coreutils' sort doesn't; it behaves
differently depending on LANG, as intended.  So you'll have to set
LANG=C if you want coreutils' sort to produce the same results as
Perl.  You could do this in your shell's startup file.


paul