From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 14:24:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5991B865 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org (saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org [217.29.35.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D45771BB for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (juno.lyx [IPv6:fd2a:89ca:7d54:0:240:caff:fe92:4f47]) by saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s2CELjOD060270 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:21:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s2CETEZt075293 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:29:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: (from wolfgang@localhost) by juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s2CETDXE075292; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:29:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: juno.lyx: wolfgang set sender to wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org using -f Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:29:13 +0100 From: Wolfgang Zenker To: Gerhard Schmidt Subject: Re: UTF-8 Sorting Message-ID: <20140312142913.GA75261@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <5320297F.1080400@ze.tum.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5320297F.1080400@ze.tum.de> Organization: private site User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org [IPv6:fd2a:89ca:7d54:1:200:24ff:feca:b4cc]); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:21:45 +0100 (CET) Cc: stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:24:37 -0000 Hi, * Gerhard Schmidt [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