From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 3 22:43:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24793 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:43:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24784 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:43:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id HAA12620; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:43:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA06996; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:38:13 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19990204073812.49101@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:38:12 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: "D. Rock" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: locale errors Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199902040250.DAA01966@vodix.aremorika> <19990204060349.A40565@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <19990204060349.A40565@nagual.pp.ru>; from Andrey A. Chernov on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 06:03:49AM +0300 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > I suggest removing any multi character definition out of the collate > > files. > > It was Joerg initiative, I don't know DE enough to judge here. Please > resolve this problem with him (CC'ed). Well, not completely. :) For testing, i've restored the file from before my change, and it missorts similarly. I'm probably too stupid to understand all of this collate stuff. So far, i haven't been able to come up with any locale definition that does the right thing for every input. To make matters worse, German doesn't even have a single collate defintion at all. There are at least two dissenting definitions: one is the phonebook sorting order, and the other one (certainly more widely accepted and thus should be the base of our collate definition) the `Duden' (German dictionary). According to my Duden, the following words Maße Maßeinheit Masse Massaua Massel should be sorted like: Massaua Maße Masse Maßeinheit Massel If anybody could come up with a set of collate definition files that does this, it probably would be the right thing. ;) Maybe it's simply impossible to express using the current collate stuff? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message