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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:34:20 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort.
Message-ID:  <9u5v3c$1l0l$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <200111271532.fARFWG336259@green.bikeshed.org> <200111281056.fASAu2u03397@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20011128192421.A26522@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> Native non-English language may need it. So unless you can convence
> yourself 4.4BSD will work well in today's environment, I would really
> leave things alone.

Well, that's easy enough to check.  Our GNU sort does this:

$ cat foo
blaa
blab
blaä
blac
blaz
bla~
$ LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1 sort foo
blaa
blaä
blab
blac
blaz
bla~
$ LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1 sort foo
blaa
blab
blac
blaz
blaä
bla~

Does the 4.4BSD-derived sort agree?  Where can we fetch it, anyway?

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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