Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

[Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/04/18 03:11, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> Can you please give an example for the sorting difference in different 
> locales if you only have english words (and I would say it means only 
> ASCII in this case)?

In the C locale, all uppercase letters are sorted before all lowercase 
letters:

$ echo -e "buster\nStretch" | LC_COLLATE=C sort
Stretch
buster

In en_GB, by comparison:

$ echo -e "buster\nStretch" | LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8 sort
buster
Stretch

Kind regards,

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand