Subject: Re: bug#23214: Possible bug in sort -g

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 08:54:02 -0700

On 04/04/2016 08:31 AM, Matthijs Nescio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Indeed, setting the environment variable LC_ALL to C solves the 
> problem. Thank you. I am a satisfied long-time user of sort so I was 
> flabbergasted.

Yes, the locale can affect 'sort' in funny ways. Thanks for following 
up. Closing the bug report.