Bug#5311: Perl sort doesn't like libc 5.4.7 + LC_CTYPE
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Topi Miettinen, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>$ export LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1
>$ perl -e 'print sort ("b\n", "a\n");'
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
This is a known problem, see bug #2241. I'm going to merge it with that
one.
This is also known upstream. It's a frequent topic of discussion of
p5p. I'm going to forward both upstream.
The current solution is:
LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C perl -e 'print sort ("b\n", "a\n");'
I'm sorry that the current locale stuff doesn't work. I realize that
the world isn't all in English as do the perl maintainers. There are
many complex issues. We are working towards a solution but it is not
known whether it will make it into perl 5.004 yet nor how complete the
solution will be. There will be a complete solution at some point in
the (relatively) near future.
Darren
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