Bug 42517

Summary: sort missorts certain strings
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao>
Component: textutilsAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Weiqi Gao 2001-05-28 00:19:42 UTC 
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Description of problem:
sort missorts the strings "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~" and "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". (The
first string contains 16 'x's and a tilde.  The second string contains 16
'x's.)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run sort
2.type in "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~" and "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" on separate lines
3.type Ctrl-D
	

Actual Results:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Expected Results:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~

Additional info:

sort missorts the above strings and strings with 32 'x's, 48 'x's, etc.

This problem was not present on Red Hat Linux 6.2.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-28 06:44:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42397 ***