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Date:      Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:30:05 -0700
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Konrad Jankowski <konrad.jankowski@bluemedia.pl>, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.ORG>, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.ORG>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
Subject:   Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
>> "BSD sort" as an idea will be a good project indeed, but "BSD sort" 
>> implementation we currently have at hand is totally misleading and should 
>> be rewritten from the scratch, I realize it when long time ago I try to 
>> localize it for single byte locales.
> 
> I think part of the problem is that there aren't enough people who truly
> understand localization.  I think I understand most of it, but I'm
> pretty sure I *don't* understand how collation works, or is supposed to
> work.  Amongst other things, I don't understand how (or whether) it
> handles cases like "aa" and "å", which are considered the same letter in
> Norwegian.
> 
> Perhaps you could create a Localization page on wiki.freebsd.org which
> addresses these issues, or at least points to relevant resources?

Good regression test suite which would include cases in different single 
and multi-byte locates for grep/sort/etc could also be a big help.

Regards,
-- 
Maksym Sobolyev
Sippy Software, Inc.
Internet Telephony (VoIP) Experts
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