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From: felix@...
Subject: Re: Perl, sort, and locale -- NEVER MIND
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:23:44 -0700
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:12:09PM -0700, felix@... wrote:

> I have discovered an inconsistency in how perl and sort handle locale.
> Here are two commands you can run in a shell ...
> 
>     (echo '/'; echo '?') | sort
> 
>     (echo '/'; echo '?') | perl -e '@x = <>; print $_ foreach sort @x'
> 
> With LANG=en_US.UTF-8, sort says ? comes before /, perl says the
> opposite.  Setting LC_COLLATE=C switches the sort behavior.

I have now found that if you add "use locales" to the perl code, it
also sorts utf difefrently.

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