findutils updatedb fails on some filename encodings

[sparr]

$ sudo updatedb
/usr/bin/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
/usr/bin/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
/usr/bin/sort: The strings compared were `/LIBRARY/FONTS/ō\216Ɩ\207ǻ\206ɻ\221.TTF' and `/LIBRARY/FONTS/ō\216Ɩ\207ɻ\221Ľ\223.TTF'.

While I can set the environment variable that sort is looking for myself, I sorta expect updatedb to handle this for me.

[UniqMartin]

Can you please paste the output of locale and env | egrep '^(LANG=|LC_)' | sort? I suspect you're not using an UTF-8 locale which sort relies on to work correctly.

[sparr]

$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ env | egrep '^(LANG=|LC_)' | sort
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[UniqMartin]

Your locale settings seem to be fine. I'm afraid you just discovered a bug in either updatedb (or worse in Apple's sort), in which case we can't help. You could try searching if this is a known issue and if not, report it upstream. If all else fails, you might have to use the workaround suggested by sort.

[sparr]

reported upstream at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?46846

[sparr]

temporary workaround is to export LC_ALL='C' at the top of the updatedb script

[UniqMartin]

reported upstream at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?46846

Thank you! Please let us know once the bug is confirmed upstream and there's a fix we can apply. We can add that to the formula until there's an update that contains the fix.

[sparr]

Thanks @DomT4 @UniqMartin