Re: Probem with join and accentuated characters

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Boris New on 3/31/2005 1:54 PM:
> Hi,
> 
> I send you the zip file with the two files. I tested a lot of windows
> port and all have this problem. I thought it was perhaps due to locale
> on windows.
> The format is the same and files are sorted. Everything is ok if I
> remove accentuated words from rand.txt.

Contrary to your assertion, your files were not sorted.  Or put another
way, they weren't sorted by the same rules that join expected.  There are
some locales that treat é and e as the same collating character, but the C
locale that is the default of cygwin is not one of them.  Hence, join gave
up after the first line where the sorting failed to match its expectations.

Run the following to show this:
$ sort < rand.txt > randsort.txt
$ diff rand.txt randsort.txt

Only if the diff turns up no change on both files will join work like you
want, for the locale you are using.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net

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