bug#80761: Proposal: Sort Chinese numbers

Thomas Wolff <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Apr 2026 22:29:57 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 07.04.2026 um 12:28 schrieb Dan Jacobson:
> I hereby propose Coreutils' sort(1) add the ability to sort Chinese
> (actually CJK) numbers.
>
> https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/64035/how-to-sort-chinese-numbers-with-a-computer
>
> Isn't Chinese has the most native speakers in the world so it's high
> time that sort(1) deal with the numbers, pun intended.
A suitable basis for such handling is file Unihan_NumericValues.txt in 
the Unihan.zip from Unicode.org.