Bug 16146 – Textutil 2.0e and lack of LC_ALL set.

Bug 16146 - Textutil 2.0e and lack of LC_ALL set.

Summary:	Textutil 2.0e and lack of LC_ALL set.

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2000-08-14 01:38 EDT by Ben Lindstrom
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:15 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-08-14 10:08:19 EDT
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Description Ben Lindstrom 2000-08-14 01:38:24 EDT

A file containing:
Z
a
A
z
_

sorts in correctly the results are "_,a,z,A,Z" instead of "A,Z,_,a,z".

According to the change log for it.  They require "LC_ALL" to be set 
to "POSIX" before the correct sorting behavior is seen.  A simple changes 
to /etc/profile will work for all tty based processes.  However a 
different solution needs to be present for Crontab to work.

My suggestion?  Fix "textutils" to *DEFAULT* to POSIX, and let LC_ALL 
override it.  Update the info/man to state this change.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-14 10:08:17 EDT

Guess we should set LC_ALL somewhere in initscripts - hacking textutils for
different defaults would cause confusion and breakages for scripts written to
run on different distributions/OSes.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-14 10:53:42 EDT

No. We used to set LC_ALL, and it broke other things.

Comment 3 Ben Lindstrom 2000-08-14 11:02:40 EDT

As stated before.  This should be considered a "textutils" bug.  LC_ALL should 
not need to be set anywhere in initscript since it's the incorrect thing to do.

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