Bug 1029784

Summary:	Case insensitive sort does not work in multibyte locale
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Petr Pisar 2013-11-13 08:30:39 UTC

$ printf 'A\nB\na\n' | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sort -i
A
B
a
$ rpm -qf $(type -p sort)
coreutils-8.21-20.fc21.x86_64

This probably because of broken multi-byte patch (bug #1003544) because coreutils-8.21-16.fc20.x86_64 sorts as expected:

$ printf 'A\nB\na\n' | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sort -i
a
A
B

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2013-11-13 13:23:44 UTC

Does occur even with the C locales... btw. -i doesn't mean case insensitive sort - it does mean "ignore nonprinting characters". I think you want -f option, which seems to work properly.

With coreutils-8.21-20 (compiled on RHEL-6)
printf 'A\nB\na\nb\n' | LC_ALL=C ./sort -i
A
B
a
b

printf 'A\nB\na\n' | LC_ALL=C ./sort -f
A
a
B

printf 'A\nB\na\n' | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ./sort -f
A
a
B

For me, it looks more like something was fixed than broken. Can you confirm?

Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2013-11-13 13:46:40 UTC

God damn! I lived in a lie until now. The `-f' option works for me. I tested it  in en_US.UTF-8, cs_CZ.UTF-8 and C locales.