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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-08-07 07:07:00 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-08-07 07:07:00 +0000 |
commit | 43fde4395ac828f7a11940516aa8fe22b05ffdbe (patch) | |
tree | 4980aaf163cd66fbcc683be34cd9992f48e88e78 /src/sort.c | |
parent | aee6ce52e082ef283151c27a8f7f510576e6d7da (diff) | |
download | coreutils-43fde4395ac828f7a11940516aa8fe22b05ffdbe.tar.xz |
(usage): Warn more succintly about the effects of
the locale on sort order.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/sort.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/sort.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c index d31f04809..3586af91e 100644 --- a/src/sort.c +++ b/src/sort.c @@ -312,10 +312,8 @@ global -Mbdfinr settings for that key. If no key is given, use the entire\n\ line as the key. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.\n\ \n\ *** WARNING ***\n\ -This version of sort honors the locale settings in your environment.\n\ -For example, if you set one of the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables\n\ -to `en_US', then sort will work very differently than most people expect.\n\ -If that's not what you want, then set LC_ALL to POSIX in your environment.\n\ +The locale specified by the environment affects sort order.\n\ +Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native byte values.\n\ ") ); puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-textutils@gnu.org>.")); |