make 'sort -h' work for arbitrary column

... even when using UTF-8 locales

coreutils-i18n-sort-human.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 3976ef5a20369d8b490907ab2cba2d617305a5e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 16:19:20 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] sort: do not use static array 'blanks' in human_numcompare()
+
+... because the array is not initialized with MB locales.  Note this is
+rather a conservative fix.  I plan to do more cleanup of the i18n patch
+in Fedora to prevent mistakes like this in future updates of coreutils.
+---
+ src/sort.c | 8 +++-----
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
+index 9e07ad8..e47b039 100644
+--- a/src/sort.c
++++ b/src/sort.c
+@@ -2274,12 +2274,10 @@ find_unit_order (char const *number)
+        <none/unknown> < K/k < M < G < T < P < E < Z < Y  */
+ 
+ static int
+-human_numcompare (char const *a, char const *b)
++human_numcompare (char *a, char *b)
+ {
+-  while (blanks[to_uchar (*a)])
+-    a++;
+-  while (blanks[to_uchar (*b)])
+-    b++;
++  skipblanks(&a, a + strlen(a));
++  skipblanks(&b, b + strlen(b));
+ 
+   int diff = find_unit_order (a) - find_unit_order (b);
+   return (diff ? diff : strnumcmp (a, b, decimal_point, thousands_sep));
+-- 
+2.5.5
+

coreutils.spec

@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Patch803: coreutils-i18n-fix-unexpand.patch
 Patch805: coreutils-i18n-fix2-expand-unexpand.patch
 #(un)expand - test BOM headers
 Patch806: coreutils-i18n-un-expand-BOM.patch
+# make 'sort -h' work for arbitrary column even when using UTF-8 locales
+Patch807: coreutils-i18n-sort-human.patch
 
 #getgrouplist() patch from Ulrich Drepper.
 Patch908: coreutils-getgrouplist.patch
@@ -188,6 +190,7 @@ including documentation and translations.
 %patch804 -p1 -b .i18n-cutold
 %patch805 -p1 -b .i18n-fix2-expand-unexpand
 %patch806 -p1 -b .i18n-BOM-expand-unexpand
+%patch807 -p1
 
 # Coreutils
 %patch908 -p1 -b .getgrouplist
@@ -365,6 +368,7 @@ fi
 
 %changelog
 * Mon Oct 31 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 8.25-7
+- make 'sort -h' work for arbitrary column even when using UTF-8 locales
 - install -Z now sets default SELinux context for created directories (#1339135)
 - switch to UTF8 locale when (un)expand input contains BOM header
   (#1158494)