Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 18:15:35 +0100 From: Reidar Bratsberg <reidar@ravn.no> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Locale: LC_COLLATE error? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19981209181534.00a3295c@trost.ravn.no>
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I'm baffled, trying to understand the Locale for FreeBSD
2.2.7-RELEASE. It seems there's an error with LC_COLLATE
as (in my case) Norwegian characters won't sort/compare
correctly.
My /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO_8859-1/ shows:
LC_COLLATE -> ../lt_LN.ISO_8859-1/LC_COLLATE
LC_CTYPE -> ../lt_LN.ISO_8859-1/LC_CTYPE
LC_TIME
This is from the standard distribution.
My perl test script to check this is (just using Perl for
testing, it's the same result in other programs):
#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX qw(locale_h);
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "no_NO.ISO_8859-1");
setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "no_NO.ISO_8859-1");
@a = ('å', 'a', 'æ', 'e', 'ø');
print sort(@a), "\n";
This returns "aeåæø", which should be "aeæøå".
Now, I've been trying to generate my own LC_COLLATE from
a standard "source document" from the Norwegian standard
commission. For this, I understand, localedef should be
used. Localedef however, is only available from the GNU
clib, and compiling/installing that is more than I really
want to cope with now :-).
Why the links the lt_LN.ISO_8859-1?
Any ideas? Or if someone has a working LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE
for Norwegian, I would appreciate it.
Best,
Reidar
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