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EuroSort is a program from the collection EuroTool for sorting of text files or for sorting of type files (consisting of fixed-length records).
Encoding of the input text file will be autodetected or it can be specified explicitly.
It also takes into account national sorting conventions (locales) and allows you to specify
whether to sort numbers first, uppercase or lowercase letters first, or whether to merge spaces.

When the EuroSort is run in Linux without parameters (using

./eurosort.x

), it launches a pseudographic screen for entering arguments.
Just press Tab or click with mouse at the selected field or at the required Encoding and Locale:

The Windows variant looks similary. When you press the button [Sort], graphic screen is dismissed, EuroSort summarizes all specified parameters on console and starts the action. Sorting of a big file may take some time, so a percentage indicator is displayed.

If both the input and output files are specified on the command line, EuroSort runs in console mode and the graphical screen is not displayed at all. Possible arguments:

; EuroSort default configuration (UTF-8): /InputFile= ; Input file name to be sorted. /OutputFile= ; Output file name where the sorted input will be saved. /InputEncoding= ; Encoding of InputFile; autodetect when not specified. /IE=? for help. /Locale= ; Use national sorting preferences. /Locale=? for help. /HeaderSize=0 ; Number of bytes to omit from sort at the begining. /HeaderLength=0 ; Number of lines to omit from sort at the begining. /FooterSize=0 ; Number of bytes to omit from sort at the end. /FooterLength=0 ; Number of lines to omit from sort at the end. /RecordSize=0 ; Fixed size in bytes if >0; otherwise variable size ended by EOL. /KeyOffset=0 ; Offset of the sorting key in chars from the beginning of the record. /KeyLength=-1 ; Key size in chars; up to the end of record when -1. /KeyReverse=false ; Sort direction descending. /MergeSpaces=false ; Treat multiple white spaces as one space. /DigitFirst=true ; Sort digits before letters. /UpperFirst=false ; Sort uppercase letters before lowercase ones. /LeaveTemporary=no ; Do not erase temporary index file when the program ends.

By default, when /Locale is not specified, the sort order follows the following sequence of basic characters of the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, supplemented by lowercase letters and diacritics.

A B C Č D E Ə F G I J K L M N O P Q R Ř S Š T U V W X Y Z Ž Þ Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω А Б В Г Д Ђ Е Є Ё Ж З И І Ј Й К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С Т Ћ Ќ У Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я

This sorting method is suitable for most European languages. Basic Latin letters A..Z and four characters with macron Č Ř Š Ž have a primary sorting function. If the characters are indistinguishable after transformation to this primary sorting weight, a secondary sorting weight is applied that takes into account diacritics (but not character case). Finally, a third sorting weight is applied to distinguish upper and lower case letters. The complete order of all characters can be viewed in the file alphabet.txt.

Other non-european alphabets (Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Canadian, far East) sort letters by their assigned Unicode value only.

The /Locale= argument accepts two-letter country code ISO 3166-1 , which introduces exceptions of the default sort order, as defined in Wikipedia:

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