Bug 7828

Summary:	sort is broken
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Doug Ledford <dledford>
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Doug Ledford 1999-12-16 01:43:15 UTC

The sort utility defaults to folding lower case to upper case.  This is
only supposed to be enabled when the -f flag is given, and there is no
means to turn it off.  This in turn breaks the use of ctags to make tags
files for vim to use since vim requires sorted tag files that don't fold
lower and upper case letters when sorting.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 1999-12-17 14:33:59 UTC

It's not a bug, it's a feature.
sort now respects locales.
What you want to do is setting LC_ALL=C before using sort.