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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Sorting scientific numbers with sort Post 302944714 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 21st of May 2015 12:05:02 PM
Old 05-21-2015
You're welcome. Try putting
Code:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

in your .profile

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Quote:
Originally Posted by plebs
[..]
Oh bummer! That was it! It's a stupid German thing as we have to do it differently as most of the rest of the world. [..]
Don't know about that:

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Green is comma, blue is dot.
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Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-21-2015 at 01:48 PM..
 

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POD2WIKI(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      POD2WIKI(1p)

NAME
pod2wiki - A utility to convert Pod documents to Wiki format. SYNOPSIS
pod2wiki [--style --noerrata --help --man] podfile [outfile] Options: --style wiki style (defaults to wiki. See --help) --noerrata don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section --help brief help message --man full documentation DESCRIPTION
This program is used for converting Pod text to Wiki text. Pod is Perl's Plain Old Documentation format. See "man perlpod" or "perldoc perlpod". A Wiki is a user extensible web site. It uses very simple mark-up that is converted to Html. For an introduction to Wikis see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki OPTIONS
podfile The input file that contains the Pod file to be converted. It can also be stdin. outfile The converted output file in wiki format. Defaults to stdout if not specified. --style or -s Sets the wiki style of the output. If no "style" is specified the program defaults to "wiki". The available options are: wiki This is the original Wiki format as used on Ward Cunningham's Portland repository of Patterns. See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki kwiki This is the format as used by Brian Ingerson's Kwiki: http://www.kwiki.org usemod This is the format used by the Usemod wikis. See: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl twiki This is the format used by TWiki wikis. See: http://twiki.org/ tiddlywiki This is the format used by the TiddlyWiki. See: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ textile The Textile markup format as used on GitHub. See: http://textile.thresholdstate.com/ wikipedia or mediawiki This is the format used by Wikipedia and MediaWiki wikis. See: http://www.mediawiki.org/ moinmoin This is the format used by MoinMoin wikis. See: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinWiki confluence This is the format used by Confluence. See: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ --noerrata or -noe Don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section at the end of the document. Equivalent to the "Pod::Simple::no_errata_section()" method. --help or -h Print a brief help message and exits. --man or -m Prints the manual page and exits. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
Please refer to the DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY in Pod::Simple::Wiki. AUTHOR
John McNamara jmcnamara@cpan.org COPYRIGHT
X MMIII-MMVIII, John McNamara. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2009-08-26 POD2WIKI(1p)
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