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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:13:00 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/uniq uniq.c
Message-ID:  <20020606121257.GC87781@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020606120315.GB87781@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 16:03:18 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> 
> > uniq is not interested in the sort order of strings, it is interested in
> > whether two lines of text are identical. If the sort utility is operating
> 
> You treat uniq as binary compare, but it is only subset of its 
> functionality. It can be used for real life languages too, in localized 
> model.

And what you try to do is to make uniq useless for real life languages. 
strcmp() is not human-oriented while strcoll() is. strcoll() should be 
used in all places which human supposed to read instead of strcmp(). For 
cases where binary comparison is needed, LANG=C trick can be used. This 
rule is generally true for all localized utilities. And you want to make 
already localized utility non-localized again.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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