[adding gnulib] On 06/01/2010 10:51 PM, River Tarnell wrote: > I'm using coreutils 8.5 on Solaris 10. > > GNU 'sort' fails to sort some input, while Solaris 'sort' handles it > correctly: > > willow% /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort sort_test.txt > /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence > /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem. > /opt/ts/gnu/bin/sort: The strings compared were > `\360\222\203\276\360\222\205\226' and > `\360\222\200\255\360\222\213\253\360\222\213\253\360\222\200\255'.
Thanks for the report. What locale are you using (that is, the entire
output of 'locale')? I could not reproduce failure using:
$ export LC_ALL; for f in $(locale -a); do LC_ALL=$f || continue;
sort sort_test.txt >/dev/null || { echo $f; break; }; done
on a GNU/Linux system with 732 installed locales. But it is highly
likely that you could be in a non-UTF-8 locale, or that the Solaris
multibyte functions are not as robust as glibc at detecting valid UTF-8
sequences. If it is indeed a bug in Solaris strcoll(), then gnulib can
probably be taught to work around it.
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