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From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
To: "'D. Rock'" <rock@cs.uni-sb.de>,
        Joerg Wunsch
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Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: locale errors
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	D. Rock [SMTP:rock@cs.uni-sb.de]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 04, 1999 10:36 AM
> To:	Joerg Wunsch
> Cc:	Andrey A. Chernov; current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Re: locale errors
> 
> 
> It is impossible. The collate couldn't detect concatenated words,
> which sould sort the usual way:
> 
> aussetzen
> austreiben
> 
> (just a simple example)
> 
	[ML]  Shouldn't ß (scharfes-s, sz) be collated as SZ which
	it really is?

	/Marino

> I noticed the difference while looking into the /R/dist/src directory
> during
> a "make release". ssys.XX was sorted behind susrbin.XX in ls output.
> 
> I suggest just backing out the stuff with multi character locale
> settings
> because it is bogus. We should just use the simple phonebook sorting,
> because
> it is easier to implement, and the people are more familiar with it.
> 
> Duden isn't always right (very true since last year for some parts in
> northern Germany)
> 
> Daniel
> 
> P.S. Solaris does sorting the easy way (at least for
> LC_COLLATE=de.ISO8859-15
> and LC_COLLATE=de)
> 
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