sort wierdness

Neil Bird neil at fnxweb.com
Fri Nov 5 13:07:02 UTC 2010


Around about 05/11/10 12:54, Jakub Jelinek typed ...
> Just look into your vocabulary, it is sorted similarly.  In most locales
> various characters are considered only in second or even later passes
> through strings, when strings without those characters are otherwise
> equal.

   OK, I can see what's happening now:  it's stripping every character that 
isn't sortable according to the locale, then sorting that.  The '@' gets 
binned along with the quotes and spaces, and the meandering is down to the 
line it's on changing from 'COMP' to just 'C' (as far as the sort is concerned).

-- 
[neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil at fnx ~]# exit


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