Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:29:13 +0100 From: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> To: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 Sorting Message-ID: <20140312142913.GA75261@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <5320297F.1080400@ze.tum.de> References: <5320297F.1080400@ze.tum.de>
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Hi, * Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de> [140312 10:31]: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > I've a problem with FreeBSD, UTF-8 and Sorting. > [..] > The problem seams to be that the LC_COLLATE file in the de_DE.UTF-8 > locale is linked to ../la_LN.US-ASCII/LC_COLLATE (as are all > LC_COLLATE Files in any UTF-8 locale). > After some Research i found a Mail from Kuba Lida in December 2008 > (yeah that's 5 Years ago) stating the same Problem and got no response. > Why isn't there a UTF-8 LC_COLLATE file for any language. Kuba Lida > believed there was a Problem with multibyte collate files in FreeBSD. > Is this true and are there plans to fix this problem. AFAIR this is not just a question of changing the collate files. Have a look at https://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation for a project to fix that problem (stalled, unfortunately). Wolfgang
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