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  1. Bug #75705
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Comment 2 for bug 75705

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Kevin Scannell (kscanne) wrote :

More information still. The problem lies with the strcoll function, which I verified with a small C program that tries to sort the two strings in question, and with any of the utf8 locales, strcoll gives the wrong answer.

I don't know how to change the "Affects" field of this bug, but it should therefore be a libc bug. My version of libc:
ii libc6-dev 2.4-1ubuntu12 GNU C Library: Development Libraries

I posted this to the bug-coreutils list too and there was some discussion, including one person who reproduced it with Debian unstable - his glibc is:
ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Development Libraries

That thread starts here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-01/msg00184.html

This seems like something pretty serious since it affects default locales and any application that requires sorting, which would be just about everything.