Bug 6762 - sort does not follow follow POSIX behavior
Summary: sort does not follow follow POSIX behavior
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 6569
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: textutils
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Preston Brown
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Reported: 1999-11-05 15:42 UTC by djschaap
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-01-14 03:45:50 UTC
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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 ***
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