Dear monks,
I want my perl program to sort just like the system it is running on.
This is trivial on Linux, but somehow seems complicated on Windows and macOS. I use the following test program
#! perl use strict; use warnings; use utf8; binmode STDOUT => ':utf8'; my @words = ( "Maria Lenore", "Mária Helena", "María Dolores" ); my @sorted = sort @words; if ( "@sorted" eq "María Dolores Mária Helena Maria Lenore" ) { print("Sorted OK\n"); } elsif ( "@sorted" eq "Maria Lenore María Dolores Mária Helena" ) { print("Sorted C (ASCII)\n"); } else { print("Sort failed: @sorted\n"); }
On Windows, I get
PS C:\Users\Johan> perl locale.pl Sorted C (ASCII) PS C:\Users\Johan> perl -Mlocale locale.pl Sorted C (ASCII) PS C:\Users\Johan>
Same on macOS.

When I create files with names "Maria Lenore", "Mária Helena" and "María Dolores" they sort correctly in the Explorer (Windows) and Finder (macOS).
How can I have perl use the same sort order as the system?

Windows 10 with Strawberry Perl 5.30
MacOS 10.15 with Perl 5.34.
These versions are a bit old, but I can not imagine I'm the first to try such a sort in 25+ years.

In reply to Using system sort order by sciurius

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