Sorting Ignores Locale Environment Variables

[Alexander Winston]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

After running "M-x shell-command <RET> wget
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt <RET>" I
ran "M-x find-file <RET> UTF-8-demo.txt <RET>" followed by "M-x
set-mark-command <RET>". I then ran "M-x goto-line <RET> 213 <RET>" and
"M-x sort-lines <RET>".

Instead of acknowledging my locale, en_US.UTF-8, and sorting the text
accordingly, the text was sorted as if my locale were set to POSIX. When
using the sort application from coreutils that acknowledges my locale,
en_US.UTF-8, the SHA-1 hash sum of the sorted text is
ab5a47ade28af1ababa623dd33c5134e6188b0b7. When the text is sorted using
the "M-x sort-lines <RET>" command, the SHA-1 hash sum of the text is
4cd6f4f72b5129f631c2ae7c3ec0bc98c40cbc0e.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-03-24 on duende
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0 -pipe''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g RET

Recent messages:
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