How to sort a file by pure ASCII order?

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

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On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Omer Zak wrote:

> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:59:32 +0300
> From: Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il>
> To: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: How to sort a file by pure ASCII order?
> 
> I encountered a counterintuitive behavior of 'sort' in modern Linux
> releases.
>
> I checked the sorting behavior of sort, as installed in Debian Jessie
> and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
> Turns out that the default behavior of sort (with locale=en_US.UTF-8) is
> not to sort by ASCII order, but as if letters and digits are more
> important to sort order than punctuation marks.
>
> Attached please find a sort-test.txt file and the output of
> sort < sort-test.txt (as the file actual.txt).
>
> To show how would the output look like using pure ASCII sort, I sorted
> sort-test.txt using python-sort.py (attached).
> and got the result reproduced in correct.txt (attached).
>
> The problem is then what options would get GNU sort to sort like
> python-sort.py?
>
> Can anyone shed a light on the matter?
>
> --- Omer
>
>
>

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