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Characters not defined into iso14651_t1_pinyin are not sorted properly

when I try to sort characters not defined in iso14651_t1_pinyin, no sort happens, they are simply left in place. I would expect to see them sorted according to their codepoint. Is there a way I can ...
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Why is uniq ignoring Unicode and lines with a single letter?

I'm trying to combine both the American and British dictionaries into one large dictionaries, and I'm trying to remove all the duplicates from the superset, but it seems that uniq is not outputting ...
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Alphabetizing names in `ls` alias with .files not intermingled

I am currently using the following ls alias: alias ls='ls -alhGkpsq --color=auto'. This results in following directory listing. [03:35] bryson@brys ~ :$ ls total 48K 4.0K drwx------ 4 bryson 4.0K ...
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What's the default order of linux sort?

For a long period I think the default behavior of sort program is using ASCII. However, when I input the following lines into sort without any arguments: # @ I got: @ # But according to the ...
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How do I make ls sort underscore characters first?

I like being able to name files and directories with an underscore prefix if it's something I want to keep separate from other files and directories at the same level. On Windows and Mac, for example, ...
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Where has my `uniq` or `sort -u` line gone, with some unicode characters

What is going on in the following code snippet? I'm not getting my expected output. I'd think it was a bug, but it happens for 2 different programs (uniq and sort), so I suspect it is something ...