[Bug 1248239] Re: sorting fails on Japanese Unicode characters

[Rolf Leggewie]

assigning to bash and coreutils packages for now for confirmation and
triage

** Package changed: ubuntu => bash (Ubuntu)

** Also affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  sorting fails on Japanese Unicode characters

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  there seems to be some oddity in interpreting some Japanese unicode
  characters in bash and how they should be sorted.

  $ ls -1 /tmp/*.txt
  /tmp/⑥-test.txt
  /tmp/⑤-test.txt
  /tmp/④-test.txt
  /tmp/①-test.txt
  /tmp/③-test.txt
  /tmp/②-test.txt
  $ ls -1 /tmp/*.txt|sort
  /tmp/⑥-test.txt
  /tmp/⑤-test.txt
  /tmp/④-test.txt
  /tmp/①-test.txt
  /tmp/③-test.txt
  /tmp/②-test.txt

  This is while booted into an uptodate precise system.

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