Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 23:29:10 +0100 From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.klepp@gmx.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sort is broken Message-ID: <201911022329.10843.dr.klepp@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <8221.1572732697@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <8221.1572732697@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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Anno domini 2019 Sat, 02 Nov 15:11:37 -0700 Ronald F. Guilmette scripsit: > In message <eec0b13b-b5d6-7e51-6241-8e1898150315@queldor.net>, you wrote: >=20 > > > > > > > >On 11/2/19 5:14 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> Not a question, just an expression of grief and deep dismay. > >>=20 > >> It is a sad day when even very fundamental tools, used in billions > >> of scripts, such as /usr/bin/sort turn up broken. > >>=20 > >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D241679 > >>=20 > >> Regards, > >> rfg > >>=20 > > > >root@q4:/ # sort a > >z=C3=BCrich.email > >root@q4:/ # sort < a > >z=C3=BCrich.email > >root@q4:/ # uname -a > >FreeBSD q4.queldor.net 12.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC=20 > >amd64 > >root@q4:/ # cat a > >z=C3=BCrich.email > >root@q4:/ # > > > >Seems to be fine on my 12.0 >=20 > Well, I guess it's just me then... >=20 > % uname -a > FreeBSD segfault.tristatelogic.com 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE r341= 666 GENERIC amd64 > % sort --version > 2.3-FreeBSD >=20 >=20 > What version of sort do you have? I remember that this sort of thing is around since at least 11.0. The probl= em occurs, when you have UFT-8 encoding set as default, but the input data = is iso 8859-1. Some characters of iso 8859-1 (=C3=A4=C3=B6=C3=BC...) are no= t valid in UTF-8. Nik > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 =2D-=20 Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing w= ith the NSA, CIA ...
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