[bug #27373] sort -h performs incorrectly if in utf8 locale.

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: sort -h performs incorrectly if in utf8 locale.
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Wed 02 Sep 2009 19:12:06 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Sample shell session:
% echo $LC_ALL

% echo $LC_COLLATE 
C
% echo $LANG                 
en_GB.utf8
% printf "1Mi\n1M" | sort -h
1M
1Mi
% export LANG=en_GB
% printf "1Mi\n1M" | sort -h
sort: both SI and IEC prefixes present on units

The relevant lines in my locale.gen are:
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8  
en_GB ISO-8859-1  

However, this appears to occurs for any utf8 locale. Coreutils 7.5. Other
tests fail in a similar manner, eg: 

% export LANG=en_GB.utf8
% printf "K\nE\nM\nZ\n" | ./sort -h 
E                                                        
K
M
Z
% export LANG="en_GB"
% printf "K\nE\nM\nZ\n" | ./sort -h
K
M
E
Z




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