Sort Order EBCDIC

Inca has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

We are rehosting applications from Mainframe to UNIX. How to achieve EBCDIC sort order in UNIX. Is there a way to set LC_COLLATE and enforce PERL sort to use EBCDIC order? Another option i tried is to convert the ASCII file into EBCDIC (using convert EBCDIC functions), sort and convert it back to ASCII (using convert EBCDIC functions). Doesn't seem to work.

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Re: Sort Order EBCDIC - In UNIX by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 20, 2005 at 21:43 UTC
shouldn't that be the other way around: EBCDIC -> ASCII, sort, ASCII -> EBCDIC? DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^2: Sort Order EBCDIC - In UNIX by PerlingTheUK (Hermit) on Nov 20, 2005 at 22:19 UTC
Just as you can find it described here. Cheers, PerlingTheUK	[reply]
Re: Sort Order EBCDIC - In UNIX by Anonymous Monk on Nov 21, 2005 at 06:49 UTC
Try `use locale`?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Sort Order EBCDIC - In UNIX by converter (Priest) on Nov 21, 2005 at 12:20 UTC
If the file is stored in "ASCII" (probably not ASCII, but an 8-bit character set) then you should sort for that character set, not EBCDIC. converter	[reply]