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Re: sort 5.2.1 is VERY slow
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: sort 5.2.1 is VERY slow |
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Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:27:18 +0100 |
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address@hidden writes:
> Taking this example again:
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> grep "konnect 1" Out_konnect | sort --key=4 -n
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> "konnect 1" is a fixed ascii string, hence
> grep can automatically do LANG=C and -F
It cannot do the former. There are encodings where bytes that look like
plain ASCII are in fact part of a multibyte sequence. But it may be
worthwhile to special case UTF-8 which does not have this problem.
Andreas.
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