sort 2.0 does dictionary compare rather than ascii compare.

[Maurice Cinquini]

The sort order with no options seems to case insensitive.
E.g., with 

sort <<EOF
A
a
B
b
EOF

I get 
A
a
B
b

instead of
A
B
a
b

FYI, sort --version says:
  sort (GNU textutils) 2.0
  Written by Mike Haertel.

  Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.2 + Glibc 2.1.2

uname -a says:
  Linux purge.speedera.net 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 i686 
unknown

I tried recompiling with textutils-2.0 but got the same issue.
the test cases pass, but I I note that no exiting test case covers this.

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