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Bug 21913

Summary: sort is broken
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Geoffrey Peck <geoff>
Component: textutilsAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Geoffrey Peck 2000-12-07 23:16:27 UTC 
Changing sort so that it no longer functions on simple text files as it 
has for 25+ years is a terrible idea. (Yes, I've been using sort on Unix 
for that long.)

If you want an i18n sort (and yes, I've read the other bug reports, so I 
know the "LC_ALL="C" workaround), that's fine. But the DEFAULT behavior, 
when the user does nothing special, should be the same as it has been 
since the beginning of (Unix) time.

This change has broken many scripts, and is causing problems which people 
probably aren't even fully aware of.
Comment 1 Geoffrey Peck 2000-12-07 23:22:20 UTC 
Created attachment 6170 [details]
example of incorrect sorting behavior
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-12-12 16:55:05 UTC 
POSIX demands this default behavior.
Get used to it or export LC_ALL=C in your startup files.
Comment 3 Radek Liboska 2002-01-12 07:54:31 UTC 
*** Bug 58233 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***