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sort: possible bug when sorting special characters

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Wolter H. V." <wolterhv <at> gmx.de>

Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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From: "Wolter H. V." <wolterhv <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: sort: possible bug when sorting special characters
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:46:19 +0100

The following commands:

    echo 'Pará,9\nParacito,0' | sort --field-separator=, -k1

and

    echo 'Pará,Z\nParacito,A' | sort --field-separator=, -k1

give

    Pará,9
    Paracito,0

and

    Paracito,A
    Pará,Z

respectively.

Sorting the string 'á\na' results in 'a\ná', so I would expect the commands above to put Paracito before Pará, but this is not the case for the first command. Why is that?

Regards,

Wolter HV
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