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Re: sort -V and accents


From: Pierre-Jean
Subject: Re: sort -V and accents
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:05:35 +0200
User-agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Pierre-Jean wrote:
> > 
> >>> I'm trying to sort a file containing accents and numbers,
> >>> but can't find a way to do this correctly:

> Also be
> open to the idea that it might be a bug in your locale definition, where
> the rules picked by your choice of LC_COLLATE could be tuned to better
> give you the sorting you want.

You're right. I have tested with heirloom sort, and I get
the same order as gnu sort.

I'm gonna look at LC_COLLATE rules, but I think I'd better
follow these standard rules, even if the output seems
strange to me.

Thanks you, and thanks Jim Meyering.

Cheers,

Pierre-Jean.




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