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.

    In reply to Re: Difference in sort order between Solaris and Linux by lpwevers
    in thread Difference in sort order between Solaris and Linux by lpwevers

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