[Cialug] Dude, Where's My Sort?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I did a bit more testing and tried it on some older machines that i have
access to. Sort works correctly with GNU sort versions 8.4 and 8.13.

What are the locale settings on the machine where it doesn't work?
Particularly, what are LC_COLLATE and LC_ALL set to?

On 3/26/20 11:34 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> The original message looked like it included the full-width versions of
> the numbers. Sort knows about Unicode and should sort those just fine.
> (Even if it doesn't know Unicode it should sort them, as i believe the
> binary representations of those would sort naturally.) And it does work
> on my machine (GNU sort 8.30).
> 
> $ printf '%s\n' ２ １ | sort
> １
> ２
> 
> On 3/26/20 11:23 AM, Scott Yates wrote:
>> Ya, those are not actual ascii numbers.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:16 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You've pasted some odd characters there for your numbers...
>>>
>>> Retyped and it works.
>>>
>>> $ printf '%s\n' 2 1 | sort
>>> 1
>>> 2
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:06 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Check it out:
>>>>
>>>> [prompt]$ sort --version
>>>> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.22
>>>> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
>>>> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>>>>> .
>>>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>>>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>>>
>>>> Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
>>>>
>>>> [prompt]$ printf '%s\n' ２ １ | sort
>>>> ２
>>>> １
>>>>
>>>> It didn't sort.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Todd
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