[Bug 75705] Re: sort order incorrect

[tneems]

I recently ran across this on 12.04 and 14.04 and managed to reproduce
it with only ascii characters

Input
echo "Z
X
Signal
Sign
Sign Problem
Signal Problem
Cc a
Cc
B
A" | sort

Output
A
B
Cc
Cc a
Sign
Signal
Signal Problem
Sign Problem
X
Z

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Title:
  sort order incorrect

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: coreutils

  sort is not behaving as expected under ga_IE.utf8

  To reproduce: create a UTF-8 file "test" with "a" on one line, and "á"
  on another.  Then run:

  $ LC_ALL=ga_IE.utf8 sort test
  a
  á

  This is correct - the accented character collates after the unaccented
  one.

  But now change the two lines to "aá" and "áa":
  $ LC_ALL=ga_IE.utf8 sort test
  áa
  aá

  Now the accented character collates first.   The second command gives the correct order ("aá" followed by "áa")
  on all other distros I've used (Gentoo for example).

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