Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:41:08 +0200 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, kde-freebsd@freebsd.kde.org, xors@mne.ru Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] system:/media/cd0 and volume_label not latin symbols Message-ID: <462A3EA4.5080303@users.sf.net> In-Reply-To: <20070406133717.fbc1f9f9.jylefort__42609.1188252487$1175860050$gmane$org@FreeBSD.org> References: <460FF56A.3040307@dobrohot.org> <200704040549.34795.xors@mne.ru> <20070404124205.8857d5c5.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> <200704041258.33610.lofi@freebsd.org> <20070406133717.fbc1f9f9.jylefort__42609.1188252487$1175860050$gmane$org@FreeBSD.org>
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Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > > What would be difficult (or impossible) would be to provide a > satisfactory explanation of the option using the small number of > characters available. > > You're right that the FreeBSD libc lacks Unicode collation support, > but it seems that no gain is made by sticking to a legacy locale: > > $ touch A B a b > $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; ls > A B a b > $ export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1; ls > A B a b > > As you can see, the files are incorrectly sorted with both locales. On > a Linux box, the sort order is correct (a A b B) in both cases. > > If someone can convince me that there are good reasons to use a legacy > locale, I might add the option despite the fact that its description > would be cryptic. > As you can see below sorting is quite OK on FreeBSD ... $ mkdir test $ cd test/ $ touch A B a b $ ls A a B b $ locale LANG=sk_SK.ISO8859-2 LC_CTYPE="sk_SK.ISO8859-2" LC_COLLATE="sk_SK.ISO8859-2" LC_TIME=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_ALL=
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