Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/sort.1.gz
Hi there.
sort(1) says:
*** 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.
This advice is overkill. LC_COLLATE=C is all that is necessary; newbies
should be helped to learn that there's more to locale settings than LANG
and LC_ALL.
Some people might have LANG or LC_MESSAGES set to some non-English language
and it seems a shame to ram English diagnostics down their throats just
because they want to use the One, True Collation Order and haven't learned
how to get it yet. Let's teach 'em to fish with a pole instead of by
tossing sticks of dynamite into the pond.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-powerpc-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
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