Re: subtle sort bug?

[gregory mott]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:43, Paul Eggert wrote: 
> gregory mott <address@hidden> writes:
> > for example, en_IN repeatably produces proper results, but en_AU
> > repeatably fails to handle some special characters properly.
> 
> I reproduced your results on my host (Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1).
> However, on my host what you were doing was a user error, as en_IN
> uses UTF-8 encoding but en_AU uses ISO-8859-1, and those two encodings
> are incompatible.
> 
> Your email used UTF-8, so most likely your /tmp/sos file was UTF-8 (as
> was mine).  One can't reliably sort a UTF-8 file using an ISO-8859-1
> locale, so it wouldn't be surprising that an en_AU sort misfired.

cool!
can you point me to an appropriate RTFM that ideally would layout what
encodings are used by what locales, or how to tell what encoding you
have/need, etc usw?