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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2017 00:28:16 -0800
From:      Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, theraven@freebsd.org
Cc:        d@delphij.net
Subject:   Why en_US.UTF-8 locale consider a < A?
Message-ID:  <062a0098-1975-6d2b-b017-f623e46ca20b@delphij.net>

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From: Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>,
 "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>,
 theraven@freebsd.org
Cc: d@delphij.net
Message-ID: <062a0098-1975-6d2b-b017-f623e46ca20b@delphij.net>
Subject: Why en_US.UTF-8 locale consider a < A?

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Hi,

I recently noticed that when LANG and LC_CTYPE are set to en_US.UTF-8,
the following file:

%%%%%
1
2
A
a
B
b
%%%%

I got:

$ LANG=3DC LC_CTYPE=3DC sort testcase
1
2
A
B
a
b
$ LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=3Den_US.UTF-8 sort testcase
1
2
a
A
b
B

Is this result correct?  It matches some Debian behavior but not macOS
behavior.

Cheers,


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