Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:38:12 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: "D. Rock" <rock@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: locale errors Message-ID: <19990204073812.49101@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19990204060349.A40565@nagual.pp.ru>; from Andrey A. Chernov on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 06:03:49AM %2B0300 References: <199902040250.DAA01966@vodix.aremorika> <19990204060349.A40565@nagual.pp.ru>
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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
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