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Message #39 received at 17189-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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With the patch, what does the sort do for non-ascii input. What about a binary sort, why input field bytes range from 0 to xff where the ytes are treated as unsigned (0..255)?
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Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
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> From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
>To: Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas <at> gmail.com>
>Cc: 17189-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 2:43 PM
>Subject: bug#17189: Sort bug #2
>
>
>On 04/07/2014 12:11 PM, Nikos Balkanas wrote:
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>>>
>>> What more are you proposing?
>>>
>>
>> I have already written a patch. It uses the available "-a" command line
>> option to
>> "force" traditional (ascii) sorting. Have updated man pages accordingly.
>>
>> What is the best way to upload it?
>
>http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING describes
>the best way to send a patch. However, I will warn you that we are very
>reluctant to burn a short option letter if there is not already existing
>practice of another non-GNU implementation using the same short option
>letter for the same meaning. Furthermore, I think that:
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>LC_ALL=C sort ...
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>is just about as easy to type as:
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>sort --ascii ...
>
>and that since the former is standardized by POSIX and already supported
>by non-GNU sort and in wide use now, while the latter is an extension
>and not likely to percolate into common use for several years, that it
>is unlikely that we will take the patch (when two ways exist to do the
>same thing, we prefer the standardized way over a GNU-specific
>extension). I can't outright reject your patch without seeing it, but
>am just trying to warn you that the bar for new features in coreutils is
>fairly high.
>
>
>--
>Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
>Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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