Re: locales.

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From: Tony Finch
Subject: Re: locales.
Date: 13:28 on 22 Dec 2006

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Joshua Rodman wrote:
>
> It seems it's mostly the shell that's insane.

No, no, other things are just as fucked by locales. My favourite is to
sort two files using `sort` and then feed them to `comm` and find that
`comm` does not consider the files to be sorted and so produces bogus
output.

Tony.
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Joshua Rodman 05:21 on 22 Dec 2006
- Tony Finch 13:28 on 22 Dec 2006
A. Pagaltzis 06:08 on 22 Dec 2006
Rafael Garcia-Suarez 07:59 on 22 Dec 2006
Aaron Crane 10:39 on 22 Dec 2006

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