Locale Modifier

Aspects of a locale-sensitive operation can be modified by using a locale modifier. The output of the locale command is:

system % locale
LANG=ko_KR.EUC
LC_CTYPE="ko_KR.EUC"
LC_NUMERIC="ko_KR.EUC"
LC_TIME="ko_KR.EUC"
LC_COLLATE="ko_KR.EUC"
LC_MONETARY="ko_KR.EUC"
LC_MESSAGES="ko_KR.EUC"
LC_ALL=ko_KR.EUC

system % cat data_file

If you sort the data_file, the sort result is:

system % sort data_file

In this case, the text is sorted on the code point value of each character defined in the current locale, ko (ko_KR.EUC). This might not be the desired result.

The Solaris operating environment provides a locale modifier. You can modify the behavior of sort by changing the current locale from ko to ko_KR.EUC@dict as shown:

system % env LANG=ko_KR.EUC@dict sort data_file