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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Message #22 received at 12008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 12008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12008: Alphabetic sorting respect user's language and/or
	locale
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:57:14 -0400

>> 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).
> How will this be different from string< etc., that we already have?

I'd expect strcoll in a utf-8 locale to sort e é è ê and such
close together.


        Stefan
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