Subject: bug#26319: sort -u deletes characters it shouldn't

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:15:04 -0700

tag 26319 notabug
close 26319
stop

On 30/03/17 14:27, [email-masked] wrote:
> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.26
> $ echo $'䜌\n龹' | sort -u
> Expected output:龹䜌
> Actual output:䜌

That's because the strcoll() in that locale is comparing them as equal.
This needs to be addressed in the locale data for glibc etc.

thanks,
Pádraig