Re: Locales/sort bug

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:23:27 +0100, Rob Gom wrote:

> [cut]
>>
>> I'm also getting that behaviour (locale set to "es_ES.UTF-8") so I
>> understand that my locale setting dictates "underscore" ("_") comes
>> first than "comma" (",") symbol.
>>
>> As per "man sort" page:
>>
>> *** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort
>> order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native
>> byte values.
>>
>> Do you think that is a bug? :-?
> 
> If so, why do I get order comma, underscore, comma? Even better,
> comma+quote+A, underscore+d,comma+quote+M. I don't get it...

Mmm... you're right, I missed the first line :-?

Heck, it's even weirder with this sequence:

aph3,"z
aph3_devel,"a
aph3,"b

I gets sorted as:

aph3,"b
aph3_devel,"a
aph3,"z

I'm trying to "reverse-engineering" the logic behind the sort but I can't 
see it. Maybe it is done randomly? Very curious, indeed.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón