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Why does sorting in Emacs vs bash produce differing outputs? What can I do to get the same result in both?

This is the output of diff two files, one sorted in Emacs with sort-lines, and the other in bash with sort command:

25a26,28
> /perl5/Filter/Crypto.pm
> /perl5/Filter/Crypto/CryptFile.pm
> /perl5/Filter/Crypto/Decrypt.pm
29,32d32
< /perl5/Filter/Crypto/CryptFile.pm
< /perl5/Filter/Crypto/Decrypt.pm
< /perl5/Filter/Crypto.pm
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Could you redo the diff with diff -u? That would make it easier to read. – legoscia Dec 21 '12 at 17:50
I found LANG=C solves the problem, but I don't know why – Zhen Dec 22 '12 at 6:59

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Setting the language with the LANG environment variable determines (amongst others) the collation settings, that is, the sorting order of characters. Probably in your original LANG setting, the order of / and . is reversed w.r.t. the default LANG=C.

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