Re: sort does not seem to work "correctly"

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: 24 Jan 2005 10:13:36 GMT

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On 2005-01-24, Luciano <nhbfluci@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> I use sort to sort a file containing german words.
[snip]
> I would like to sort my file in such a way that
> a with umlaut is considered like an a, as
> is done in germans dictionary,
> but sort does not do it.

It should if you feed it the correct locale: The environment variable
LC_COLLATE should be set appropiately. (Set to de_DE.ISO8859-15 or
possibly de_DE.UTF-8, depending on the encoding used in your file.) 

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