On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 07:16:29PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Both space and tab sort lexically before digits (which start at 48 for > "0"). If you're using another whitespace codepoint by accident then it > will probably come above the digits and thus change the sort result. That's true only in LC_COLLATE=C and a couple of other locales, certainly not true for most other locales. Spaces/tabs and other non-alphanumeric characters are often ignored for collation purposes, at least in the first phase and they do make a difference only if strings without those characters are identical. Similarly, digits may have smaller priority than alphabetic characters etc., it all depends on your locale. Look at a vocabulary for your specific language and see how things are sorted there. If you want ASCII sorting, use LC_ALL=C sort Jakub -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
