GNU bug report logs - #21916
sort -u drops unique lines with some locales

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 05:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 21916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21916: sort -u drops unique lines with some locales
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 22:23:11 +0100

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Oh one further solution:

- document more properly in the manpage and --help, what -u really is,
and especially that it may not behave as expected, with other
locales/collations.
Perhaps even giving an example, so that people understand the
seriousness of that.

- add companion option, maybe -U, which sorts out *only* those lines
which are really binary identical between the two \n .

Cheers,
Chris.
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