Re: wrong strcoll() result with different UTF locale setting

[Markus Kuhn <mgk25@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > I would *hope* sv_SE.utf8 (being the locale for Swedish as used in
> > Sweden, in an UTF-8) encoding, sorts "ä" after "z"!!
[...]
> $ LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 bash -c 'echo -e "å\nä\nö\nz" | sort'
> å
> ä
> ö
> z
>
> (RedHat 7.1, glibc 2.2.2, bash 2.04, textutils 2.0.11)

Can't reproduce the above. I get correctly (in a UTF-8 xterm):

$ LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 bash -c 'echo -e "å\nä\nö\nz" | sort'
z
ä
å
ö

Same OS version here.

Markus

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