Re: sort order changed in "sort" and "ls".

[Pádraig Brady]

Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Dear coreutils-developers, 
> 
> I just noticed that ls sorted my directory in an unusual way. I was
> writing up a bugreport, and was saying: It's odd that ls would sort
> differently than "sort" would, and found out that sort has been
> changed as well.
> 
> Sort has an option to trigger the observed behaviour: -f. 
> 
> This works on an older instance of "sort" that I found, which was
> compiled by debian in 2004.


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> P.S. It seems my shell is similarly broken. 

I'm guessing your locale changed? Details in the FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021