GNU bug report logs - #23012
sort: add option to set specific locale

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: John Heidemann <johnh <at> isi.edu>

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:24:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 23013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23012: add option to specific locale to sort
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:07:48 -0600

retitle 23012 sort: add option to set specific locale
severity 23012 wishlist
tags 23012 wontfix
close 23012
stop

(triaging old bug)

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 08:17:07AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> 
> After all, the only case I see is that users are unhappy with the sorting
> of their non-C locale, or put the other way round: probably the only value
> needed is --locale=C which could then be a fix option like --C-locale.
> Yet, as there's "LC_ALL=C sort ...", this is still redundant.
> 

With no further comments in 2 years, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 212 days ago.

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