Hi. I have noticed that sort seems to have problems when the LANG environment variable is set with language and country. As a test case, i tried to sort a b a ⺌ ⺕ ⺌ It sorts OK like this, with LANG just the language.encoding: ( setenv LANG en.UTF-8 ; echo 'a\nb\na\n⺌\n⺕\n⺌' | sort ) a a b ⺌ ⺌ ⺕ But not with LANG as language_country.encoding: ( setenv LANG en_GB.UTF-8 ; echo 'a\nb\na\n⺌\n⺕\n⺌' | sort ) ⺌ ⺕ ⺌ a a b sort: sort (GNU coreutils) 8.21 Shell: tcsh 6.18.01 (Astron) 2012-02-14 (x86_64-unknown-linux) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,color,filec Fedora Linux 20 Regards, ospalh