in reply to Difference in sort order between Solaris and Linux

Hi,

All, thanks for the suggestions. I've tried them all. So, I can now confirm that:

  • The locales are installed on both servers (locale -a lists them on both)
  • I've put the setting of the locale in a BEGIN { .. } block
  • Just to make sure, I've tried other, installed locales, as well.
  • If I remove &use locale& from the Perl code, I can see sort behaving differently. So far as I'm concerned, the locale setting seems to be taken into account
  • For completeness, on Solaris the locale is called &en_US.ISO8859-1&, whilst on Linux it's called &en_US.iso88591&. Just to make sure I tried both names on both systems.

    • All to no avail I'm afraid.

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    Re^2: Difference in sort order between Solaris and Linux
    by McA (Priest) on Mar 05, 2014 at 13:44 UTC

      Hi,

      To your point "...If I remove &use locale& from the Perl code, I can see sort behaving differently...". Have you tried to call your script on both environments this way:

      LANG=C perl sortscript.pl

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      What is the outcome in this case?

      McA

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        Hi, Ok, just tried that. There's no difference in the outcome. To make sure I also double checked that the locale settings in the shell are set to the right iso8859 value.
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          Now it would be interesting to see whether the commandline sort behaves similar. Put the words in a file per line and do a LANG=C sort file on both machines.

          McA

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