russian text; perl NEED HELP!!!

[Eugene Sevinian <sevinian@crdlx2.yerphi.am>]

Hi,
as I run into this problem and do not how to cope with it,
I would like to ask somebody who is workig with russian
just to test whether perl supports sorting  of russian texts. 
Torsten sent me a simple script which was working for him. 

Any help will be greatly appreciated,
TIA,
	Eugene

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote:

> 
> Hi all, 
> about one month ago there were posting about locale's usage under
> perl.  I tried to use it for sorting russian, but it did not work for me.
> Is there any additional tricks beside setting LANG=ru_RU; export LANG? I
> used /usr/share/keytables/ru.map for inputing some russian text. Hope this
> corresponds to koi8 coding. 
> 
> Thanks forward,
> 	Eugene.
> 
> On 20 Nov 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I tried it with the following little sorting program:
> > 
> >   use locale;
> > 
> >   my @ARRAY;
> >   my $i;
> > 
> >   while(<>) {
> >     push @ARRAY, $_;
> >   }
> >   for $i (sort @ARRAY) {
> >     print $i;
> >   }
> > 
> > and it work perfectly (in my case treating ö like o).  At least perl
> > is aware of locales.
> > 
> > 	Torsten
> >