Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:08:35 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. Message-ID: <200111291608.fATG8Ze60644@green.bikeshed.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> of "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:06:16 %2B0300." <20011129160616.GB8233@nagual.pp.ru>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:31:37 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:45:19PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:56:02AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > > > > > > > For those whe need GNU Sort, I can easily make a port. > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > They both seem to sort ja_JP.EUC in the order I'd expect them to (the same > > > way)... Those are the only two environments I use. > > > > That is probably a suffient test. I would imagine if .jp is handled > > fine, every thing else can be. > > Just opposite. If .jp is handled fine, it means nothing. We don't support > collation for multi-byte encoding. You test missing feature in that case. In that case, they're both broken just enough to work perfectly well for me so I will support either :-) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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