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24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?

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Message #125 received at 18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting;
 make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:05:43 +0200

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> So what, maybe it is sufficient to take over the implementation from
>> glib, indeed. There's not too much logic added there, and we would avoid
>> the glib dependency.
>
> That's what I had in mind, yes.

Finally, I came out with the appended patch. Comments appreciated.

>> do you or somebody else has some test cases for `gstring-lessp' or
>> `gstring-equalp', which shall return different results than
>> `string-lessp' and `string-equal'?
>
> I don't have such test cases, but I'd start by looking in the glib
> test suite.

There aren't so many glib test cases for collation. I need to search further.

Best regards, Michael.

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