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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to sort a string with numbers Post 302152768 by ghostdog74 on Friday 21st of December 2007 06:00:47 AM
Old 12-21-2007
Code:
# more file
Hello world
20.982342864 343
19.234355545 222
1.5567846 345
17.8767787 200

# sort -r file
Hello world
20.982342864 343
19.234355545 222
17.8767787 200
1.5567846 345

# echo $LC_CTYPE
en_US.UTF-8

 

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iconv_dhn

iconv_dhn(5)						Standards, Environments, and Macros					      iconv_dhn(5)

NAME

       iconv_dhn - code set conversion tables for DHN (Dom Handlowy Nauki)

DESCRIPTION

       The following code set conversions are supported:

       +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
       |		  Code Set Conversions Supported		    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |    Code      |Symbol  |Target Code   |Symbol  |   Target Output    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |DHN	      |dhn     |ISO 8859-2    |iso2    | ISO Latin 2	    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |DHN	      |dhn     |MS 1250       |win2    | Windows Latin 2    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |DHN	      |dhn     |MS 852	      |dos2    | MS-DOS Latin 2     |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |DHN	      |dhn     |Mazovia       |maz     | Mazovia	    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+

CONVERSIONS

       The conversions are performed according to the following tables. All values in the tables are given in octal.

   DHN to ISO 8859-2
       For the conversion of DHN to ISO 8859-2, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |     DHN       |  ISO 8859-2	|     DHN	 |  ISO 8859-2	 |
       |24-177	       | 40		|222		 |40		 |
       |200	       | 241		|223		 |364		 |
       |201	       | 306		|224		 |366		 |
       |202	       | 312		|225-230	 |40		 |
       |203	       | 243		|231		 |326		 |
       |204	       | 321		|232		 |334		 |
       |205	       | 323		|233-237	 |40		 |
       |206	       | 246		|240		 |341		 |
       |207	       | 254		|241		 |355		 |
       |210	       | 257		|242		 |363		 |
       |211	       | 261		|243		 |372		 |
       |212	       | 346		|244-340	 |40		 |
       |213	       | 352		|341		 |337		 |
       |214	       | 263		|342-365	 |40		 |
       |215	       | 361		|366		 |367		 |
       |216	       | 363		|367		 |40		 |
       |217	       | 266		|370		 |260		 |
       |220	       | 274		|371-376	 |40		 |
       |221	       | 277		|		 |		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

   DHN to MS 1250
       For the conversion of DHN to MS 1250, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |     DHN       |    MS 1250	|     DHN	 |   MS 1250	 |
       |200	       | 245		|233-237	 |40		 |
       |201	       | 306		|240		 |341		 |
       |202	       | 312		|241		 |355		 |
       |203	       | 243		|242		 |363		 |
       |204	       | 321		|243		 |372		 |
       |205	       | 323		|244-251	 |40		 |
       |206	       | 214		|252		 |254		 |
       |207	       | 217		|253-255	 |40		 |
       |210	       | 257		|256		 |253		 |
       |211	       | 271		|257		 |273		 |
       |212	       | 346		|260-340	 |40		 |
       |213	       | 352		|341		 |337		 |
       |214	       | 263		|342-345	 |40		 |
       |215	       | 361		|346		 |265		 |
       |216	       | 363		|347-360	 |40		 |
       |217	       | 234		|361		 |261		 |
       |220	       | 237		|362-365	 |40		 |
       |221	       | 277		|366		 |367		 |
       |222	       | 40		|367		 |40		 |
       |223	       | 364		|370		 |260		 |
       |224	       | 366		|371		 |40		 |
       |225-230        | 40		|372		 |267		 |
       |231	       | 326		|373-376	 |40		 |
       |232	       | 334		|		 |		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

   DHN to MS 852
       For the conversion of DHN to MS 852, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |     DHN       |    MS 852	|     DHN	 |    MS 852	 |
       |200	       | 244		|212		 |206		 |
       |201	       | 217		|213		 |251		 |
       |202	       | 250		|214		 |210		 |
       |203	       | 235		|215		 |344		 |
       |204	       | 343		|216		 |242		 |
       |205	       | 340		|217		 |230		 |
       |206	       | 227		|220		 |253		 |
       |207	       | 215		|221		 |276		 |
       |210	       | 275		|222-375	 |40		 |
       |211	       | 245		|		 |		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

   DHN to Mazovia
       For the conversion of DHN to Mazovia, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |     DHN       |    Mazovia	|     DHN	 |   Mazovia	 |
       |200	       | 217		|212		 |215		 |
       |201	       | 225		|213		 |221		 |
       |202	       | 220		|214		 |222		 |
       |203	       | 234		|215		 |244		 |
       |204	       | 245		|216		 |242		 |
       |205	       | 243		|217		 |236		 |
       |206	       | 230		|220		 |246		 |
       |207	       | 240		|221		 |247		 |
       |210	       | 241		|222-247	 |40		 |
       |211	       | 206		|		 |		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

FILES

       /usr/lib/iconv/*.so	       conversion modules

       /usr/lib/iconv/*.t	       conversion tables

       /usr/lib/iconv/iconv_data       list of conversions supported by conversion tables

SEE ALSO

       iconv(1), iconv(3C), iconv(5)

SunOS 5.10							    18 Apr 1997 						      iconv_dhn(5)
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