Bug in sort?

[Dhananjai M. Rao]

Hi,

I seem to have encoutnered a strange issue when using sort. Here is the 
incorrect output:

dragon /tmp> sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 6.9
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.

dragon /tmp> sort
Ahmedabad, India: 23.039574,72.56602|
Ahmedabad, India, 5650000%
Ahmedabad, India: 23.039574,72.56602|
Ahmedabad, India, 5650000%

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Expected results (as observed on UNIX, SunOS unixgen1.mcs.muohio.edu 5.8 
Generic_117350-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880):
Ahmedabad, India, 5650000%
Ahmedabad, India: 23.039574,72.56602|

thanks

with regards
DJ