sort is broken

[Michael Toth]

On 11/2/19 5:14 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Not a question, just an expression of grief and deep dismay.
> 
> It is a sad day when even very fundamental tools, used in billions
> of scripts, such as /usr/bin/sort turn up broken.
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241679
> 
> Regards,
> rfg
> 

root at q4:/ # sort a
zürich.email
root at q4:/ # sort < a
zürich.email
root at q4:/ # uname -a
FreeBSD q4.queldor.net 12.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC 
amd64
root at q4:/ # cat a
zürich.email
root at q4:/ #

Seems to be fine on my 12.0

> 
> P.S.  I just checked and the problem does not afflict the sort
> utility provided with Ubuntu Linux.
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