Re^2: Sorting according to locale collation

just out of curiosity: You said that "i" and "y" are treated the same. Would it still be right if you swap "ia" and "ya" in that list?

I'm not Lithuanian - i just studied it a little in the University. From what i've seen in dictionaries and grammar books, when the letter following I/Y is the same, I comes before Y.

Does the Unix utility sort(1) behave correctly?

I tried running this:

[root@sugarcube loc]# LC_COLLATE="lt_LT"
[root@sugarcube loc]# export LC_COLLATE
[root@sugarcube loc]# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=lt_LT
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[root@sugarcube loc]# cat ia.txt
ia
ic
ib
ya
yb
yc

[root@sugarcube loc]# sort ia.txt

ia
ib
ic
ya
yb
yc
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Looks like sort(1) did something, but not what i expected. I am not sure that i changed the locale correctly - i am not a Unix export. Any help will be appreciated.

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Re^3: Sorting according to locale collation by betterworld (Curate) on Apr 22, 2007 at 14:42 UTC
Looks like sort(1) prints the lines in the same order as Perl's sort does. So I guess the problem is that the locale itself does not treat i and y the same. (I don't know if that's possible at all.) According to perldoc perllocale, the locale answers the question "which of these letters comes first". I don't think that the answer "neither `i` nor `y` comes first, but `i` comes first if it is the only difference in the whole word" is allowed.	[reply]
Re^3: Sorting according to locale collation by Krambambuli (Curate) on Apr 22, 2007 at 15:55 UTC
What is the output if you add say ha ja to your test data set ?	[reply]


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