sort not sorting as expected (space and locale)

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It uses the system locale to determine the sorting order of letters. My guess is that with your locale, it ignores whitespace.

$ cat foo.txt 
v 1006
v10 1
v 1011
$ LC_ALL=C sort foo.txt
v 1006
v 1011
v10 1
$ LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 sort foo.txt
v 1006
v10 1
v 1011

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