[redirecting to discussion list] At 2019-07-01T16:42:10+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > I know this is a really minor point - but i don't understand this change: > > $ LC=C printf "a\nA\n" | sort > A > a > $ LC=en_US.UTF-8 printf "a\nA\n" | sort > A > a
Well, (1) LC is not a POSIX-standard locale-controlling variable, as far as I know. Is it a BSDism? > The above holds independently of the operating system - i tested > OpenBSD, Debian Linux, and Solaris, and on the latter two also > with a couple of non-English locales. Also, (2) Your test case is insufficiently developed, since you have characters from only one equivalence class. Try this: $ printf 'A\na\nb\nB\n' | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sort a A b B Then try it with LC_ALL=C. > The only system i was able to find with "small before capital" > is Solaris/illumos. Linux appears to have no clear convention: > most often, ordering is totally random in Linux manual pages. > > So why did you change the order? To combat the chaos. Regards, Branden
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