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Re: sort and strcoll?


From: Frank Heckenbach
Subject: Re: sort and strcoll?
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:26:50 +0200

> Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden> wrote:
> | The TODO of textutils-1.22 said:
> |
> |   sort: use strcoll for a slow-but-locale-aware mode
> |
> | In 2.0, this item seems to have disappeared, but I see no use of
> | strcoll in the sources, either (and no new options that could
> | activate it).
> |
> | What happened to it? Is it possible (or still planned) to sort
> | non-English texts alphabetically with sort, or should I use another
> | program (which?) to do that?
> 
> GNU sort works just fine.
> It uses memcoll.
> 
> The latest test release is here:
> 
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.14.tar.gz

Sorry, my mistake. I hadn't set the environment variables correctly
(and had assumed, because of the comment in 1.22, that it would
require a special option that I didn't find). Works fine now.

Frank

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