Bug 6762

Summary:	sort does not follow follow POSIX behavior
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	djschaap
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Version:	6.1
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Description djschaap 1999-11-05 15:42:51 UTC

Under RedHat 6.0, sort has (for me anyway) followed
POSIX-specified behavior of case-sensitive sorting.  Doing a
fresh install of Redhat 6.1 (and selecting en_US during
install) causes sort to do case-insensitive searches.
Upgrading an existing RedHat 6.0 system to RH 6.1 does not
alter sort's behavior (ie, it remains case-sensitive).  It
appears the new textutils package improperly uses the
"locale" setting.  (IMO anyway -- I think sort should
*always* default to case-sensitive sorting to maintain
compatibility with other distros / Unices)

Is there a fix for this?  If not, how can I change the
locale on a RH 6.1 box?

Comment 1 djschaap 1999-11-05 15:59:59 UTC

I've changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to {LANG,LC_ALL,LINGUAS}=POSIX (from
en_US) for now.  This seems to be a decent workaround.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-11-05 16:24:59 UTC

Sort is correctly following the LC_COLLATE settings in
the en_US locale. However, the correctness of those
locale settings is a matter of question....

Comment 3 Preston Brown 2000-01-14 03:45:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6569 ***