[Toybox] sort -V

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Dec 19 12:04:10 PST 2018


On 12/19/18 1:41 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> it turns out that we have a few users of `sort -V`. i'd always assumed
> this meant "use the GNU strverscmp(3) function as your comparator" but
> no, it's slightly different...

By the way, do any of the regex engines support utf8 yet?

(I'm aware that china despises utf8 because all their chars expand to 4 bytes
and they use a 2 byte encoding instead, but if utf8 gets supported we can do an
internal conversion, and it gets us the _rest_ of the planet...)

Rob


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