I don't this this should abort()? LC_ALL=fr_FR locale abmon | tr ';' '\n' | LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 sort -M
Thanks for report, confirmed ... will take a look on it...
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle. Changing version to '14'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
That one got off my radar ... ooops. Changed that assertion failure to more descriptive error message and built as coreutils-8.5-8.fc15 ... closing RAWHIDE.