sort ignores dashes?

[Corin Hartland-Swann]

Hi there,

I assume that this is intended behaviour and not a bug, but I couldn't
find it documented, and wanted to know how to disable it.

Summary: When sorting a list of word with dashes in them, sort appears to
ignore the dashes (textutils v2.0).

The following file is not changed by sort:

    a
    a-b
    ab
    a-c
    ac

I want to sort it like this:

    a
    a-b
    a-c
    ab
    ac

Because ASCII '-' is smaller than alphabetical chars.

Is there any way to make sort behave like this?

Regards,

Corin

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