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

[Marius Mauch]

felix@×××××××.com schrieb:
> I doubt this is the right place to bring this up, but maybe some one
> can tell me where to go :-)

Yeah, this is definitely the wrong place, not really sure where the 
appropriate place for this is though. Probably a perl or coreutils 
related list/forum might help you.

> 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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