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sort does not seem to work "correctly"
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| Luciano 2005-01-24, 2:48 am |
| Hi,
I use sort to sort a file containing german words.
The problem is as follow:
the german alphabet has vowels with "umlaut", i.e.
a with two dots on top written =E4.
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.
os: Linux slackware 9.x
Any idea?
Luciano
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| Begin <Pine.GSO.4.44.0501240843340.24878-100000@unics>
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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j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
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