Re: FW: sort problem

[Jim Meyering]

"Macbeth, Michael" <address@hidden> writes:
| > I am using RedHat 6.1 sort FSF version 2.0
| >
| > Try sorting these three lines: eg sort -b
| > A2    2
| > A1    2
| > A      2
| >
| > The order is: (WRONG!)
| > A1    2
| > A      1
| > A2    2
| >
| > The order should be: (as in RedHat 4.2 GNU textutils) 1.22
| > A     2
| > A1   2
| > A2   2
| >
| > Hmmm.
| >
| > Is there a bug fix?  The original 4.2 sort seems to work OK on the 6.1
| > platform.

You are using the version of sort that comes with textutils-2.0
or newer and have reported a problem whereby it is sorting in
some non-ASCII order.

That is due not to a bug in sort, but to the fact that you have
set environment variables that direct sort to use improper locale-
specific tables (you or your vendor have probably set environment
variables like LC_ALL to en_US).

You should set LC_ALL to POSIX

  # If you use bash or some other Bourne-based shell,
  export LC_ALL=POSIX

  # If you use a C-shell,
  setenv LC_ALL POSIX

and then sort will work the way you expect.