From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 29 8: 8:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B206037B41E; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.4/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fATG8Ze60644; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:08:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200111291608.fATG8Ze60644@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: "David O'Brien" , Mark Murray , Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. In-Reply-To: Message from "Andrey A. Chernov" of "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:06:16 +0300." <20011129160616.GB8233@nagual.pp.ru> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:08:35 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:31:37 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:45:19PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > "David O'Brien" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:56:02AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > > > > > > > For those whe need GNU Sort, I can easily make a port. > > > > > > > > Native non-English language may need it. So unless you can convence > > > > yourself 4.4BSD will work well in today's environment, I would really > > > > leave things alone. > > > > > > They both seem to sort ja_JP.EUC in the order I'd expect them to (the same > > > way)... Those are the only two environments I use. > > > > That is probably a suffient test. I would imagine if .jp is handled > > fine, every thing else can be. > > Just opposite. If .jp is handled fine, it means nothing. We don't support > collation for multi-byte encoding. You test missing feature in that case. In that case, they're both broken just enough to work perfectly well for me so I will support either :-) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message