Reasons for speedup?
Reasons for speedup?
Posted Feb 18, 2025 3:10 UTC (Tue) by ehiggs (guest, #90713)In reply to: Reasons for speedup? by excors
Parent article: Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust
> (I should probably add, in practice I never want `sort` to do Unicode collation. On systems which default to e.g. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 I find it actively annoying
Regardless it should do Unicode canonicalization or it will miss sort depending on how different runes are composed. This is fine for diacritic free languages like English but as soon as you get some diacritics then LANG=C's naïve handling of text breaks in my experience.