On 26.01.2019 16:05, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 12:28:08PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >>> Those take no floating point input that I can see. For sort, >>> its only use of floats would be sorting files containing them, >>> for which (I assume) one would want and expect the file >>> to be a locale specific format, and for sort to recognise >>> the floats in a locale specific way. >> >> This is where I disagree. In my opinion (of a native user of ",") - >> parsing locale specific input for such programs doesn't make sense. > > As another user of such a locale: I disagree, it makes perfect sense > to get properly numerically sorted output from sort if I specify > the correct locale. I do a lot of financial stuff in sh, awk and > various other base system commands and sometimes input data comes from > external sources. > > Martin > I see. I've mentioned that these punctuations are used in my region almost only in Office suites.. but if someone does this sort of tasks in awk(1) and not with Excel/Calc-like program then there is a use-case (not just hypothetical).
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