GNU bug report logs - #12008
Alphabetic sorting respect user's language and/or locale

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:39:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 2263

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 12008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12008: Alphabetic sorting respect user's language and/or locale
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:24:31 -0400

> A simple way of doing this goes along the following lines:
>   Lisp_Object enc_str1 = ENCODE_SYSTEM (string1);
>   Lisp_Object enc_str2 = ENCODE_SYSTEM (string2);
>   return make_number (strcoll (enc_str1, enc_str2));

That's probably OK for dired'd sorting but not for sort-subr where we
need to be independent from the system locale.  So better would be to
switch the locale to utf-8 and call strcoll without calling
ENCODE_SYSTEM (tho of course, only if the strings are multibyte).


        Stefan
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