Hi All -
When Locale is set to en_GB.ISO8859-1 and sort done, the output does not match the sort done on the same file with Locale set to en_US.ISO8859-1. Please note that both are using the ISO8859-1 char set. Why is the difference?
Your input will greatly help.
Thanks in advance
Different locales have different sort orders, the sort order used will be determined by the LC_COLLATE environment variable.
One example of this is given in the sort manpage;
If LC_COLLATE is set to C, sorting will be in ASCII order.
If LC_COLLATE is set to en_US, sorting is case insensitive
except when the two strings are otherwise equal and one has
an uppercase letter earlier than the other.
Not exactly, the locales are defined in /usr/lib/localedef/src/locales/en_US.ISO8859-1.src.bz2 and /usr/lib/localedef/src/locales/en_GB.ISO8859-1.src.bz2, but they aren't exactly human readable, but if you look at the LC_COLLATE sections of these files you will notice that they are somewhat different.
hope this helps :)
.7/M.
