Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: minor
The sort command appears to ignore (as in not include) locale
punctuation when splitting data into fields. This has a side effect of
causing a numeric sort to fail to correctly sort comma-separated files.
The following is a test demonstrating this:
$ export LANG=C
$ (echo 10#1;echo 1#10) | sort -n -t '#'
1#10
10#1
$ (echo 10,1;echo 1,10) | sort -n -t ','
1,10
10,1
$ export LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
$ (echo 10#1;echo 1#10) | sort -n -t '#'
1#10
10#1
$ (echo 10,1;echo 1,10) | sort -n -t ','
10,1
1,10
Now that I'm aware that the locale is an issue, I can update my scripts
to compensate, but this is a problem that is likely to bite other people
who use the sort command for comma-separated files.
NOTE: This bug may be similar to others, #367891, #409221, #353909, and
#223068. Please mark as duplicate if you do not think there is any
additional issues identified by this bug.
--
David Hall (gringer)
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