Bug#56195: marked as forwarded (en_US locale breaks sorting)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #56195,
regarding en_US locale breaks sorting
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
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From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@thok.org>
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Subject: en_US locale breaks sorting
Full-Name: "Mark W. Eichin"
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:36:34 -0500 (EST)
package: locales
version: 2.1.2-10
Given that LC_ALL or LANG triggers this, I'm going to assume it is a
locale problem first, though it could be sort itself. Namely, setting
the en_US locale forces case-insensitive sorting...
$ sort
A
b
C
d
A
C
b
d
$ LC_ALL=en_US sort
A
b
C
d
A
b
C
d
$ sort --version
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