Subject: Re: bug#34490: console the user that his -n in sort --debug -n was seen

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:53:48 -0800

On 15/02/19 06:21, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Can you please have assure the user in that message it makes
> that it has indeed seen his -n/--numeric-sort.
> 
> $ sort --debug
> sort: using simple byte comparison
> $ sort --debug --numeric-sort
> sort: using simple byte comparison
>                    ^^^^ unchanged. User gets nervous.
> 
> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.30. Sorry we discussed this before but kinda hard to find...

Fair point. I'm thinking of this extra qualification:

  sort: text ordering performed using ‘en_IE.UTF-8’ sorting rules
  sort: text ordering performed using simple byte comparison

cheers,
Pádraig