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: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: bug#12008: Alphabetic sorting respect user's language and/or locale
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:34:53 +0200

> How do you mean "independent of the system locale"?  We already have
> locale-independent string comparison: compare-strings, string<, etc.
> By contrast, sorting strings in collation order is AFAIK inherently
> locale-specific.  Or am I missing something?

Ideally, it should be possible to specify a locale-independent behavior.
But using the locale-specific one would be already a great improvement
for me.

> (And btw, AFAIK Dired doesn't sort, it relies on 'ls' to do so, and
> 'ls' uses 'strcoll' to sort file names.

I suppose this doesn't hold for the `ls' coming with GnuWin32.

> Only on MS-Windows, where we
> use ls-lisp.el, do we need to collate in Lisp as part of Dired.)

martin
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