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Old 03-24-2010
shell: reconcile language and sort behaviour

Hi

Don't know if this is a dummy question, but let's give it a try.

I yesterday had a problem with undefined behaviour in the sort shell command (I'm using bash), leading to different sort orders without apparent reasons. I resolved this by typing

Code:
export LC_ALL="C"
export LC_COLLATE="C"
export LC_CTYPE="C"

and adding this to my .bash_profile as well.

The language is still set to english :

Code:
[jos@faba ~]$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

But now, the shell doesn't recognize special characters anymore, like accented ones (I've lots of them : although my system is in english, I'm in France so I've lots of accents in my filenames).
Even in english text, non-recognized characters do appear (for instance "man rpm" gives "<E2><80><99>" characters).

My question : is it "either-or", i.e. either correct sorting behaviour or correct character handling, or is there a way to have both behave correctly ?

Thanks in advance
jos
 

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oggz-sort(1)						      General Commands Manual						      oggz-sort(1)

NAME
oggz-sort -- Sort the pages of an Ogg file in order of presentation time. SYNOPSIS
oggz-sort [-o filename | --output filename ] filename oggz-sort [-h | --help ] [-v | --version ] Description oggz-sort sorts an Ogg file, interleaving pages in order of presentation time. It correctly interprets the granulepos timestamps of Ogg CELT, CMML, Dirac, FLAC, Kate, PCM, Speex, Theora and Vorbis bitstreams. Run oggz-known-codecs(1) for a full list of codecs known by the installed version of oggz. Some encoders produce files with incorrect page ordering; for example, some audio and video pages may occur out of order. Although these files are usually playable, it can be difficult to accurately seek or scrub on them, increasing the likelihood of glitches during playback. Players may also need to use more memory in order to buffer the audio and video data for synchronized playback, which can be a problem when the files are viewed on low-memory devices. Some older Ogg encoders also produce pages which incorrectly have granulepos timestamps recorded that shouldn't be: pages which have no completed packets must have a granulepos of -1. oggz-sort will correct such granulepos during the process of sorting. The tool oggz-validate can be used to check the relative ordering of packets in a file, and also to detect incorrect granulepos on pages with no completed packets. If either of these errors are reported, or use oggz-sort to fix the problem. Options oggz-sort accepts the following options: Miscellaneous options -o filename, --output filename Write output to the specified filename instead of printing it to standard output. -h, --help Display usage information and exit. -v, --version Output version information and exit. EXAMPLES
Correct the page ordering in broken.ogv: oggz sort -o fixed.ogv broken.ogv AUTHOR
Conrad Parker January 25, 2008; COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 Annodex Association SEE ALSO
oggz-validate(1), oggz-merge(1), oggz-dump(1), oggz-diff(1), hogg(1) oggz-sort(1)
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