[gentoo-portage-dev] Perl, sort, and locale

I doubt this is the right place to bring this up, but maybe some one
can tell me where to go :-)

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 no
idea what else changes or where else perl and sort disagree, or what
other programs do.

Seems like something is wrong, but I don't know what.  This happens on
other versions of Linux.  It is not a gentoo specific problem.

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