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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:12:09PM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> I have discovered an inconsistency in how perl and sort handle locale. |
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> Here are two commands you can run in a shell ... |
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> (echo '/'; echo '?') | sort |
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> (echo '/'; echo '?') | perl -e '@x = <>; print $_ foreach sort @x' |
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> With LANG=en_US.UTF-8, sort says ? comes before /, perl says the |
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> opposite. Setting LC_COLLATE=C switches the sort behavior. |
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I have now found that if you add "use locales" to the perl code, it |
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also sorts utf difefrently. |
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Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com |
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o |
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