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

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Message #140 received at 18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
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: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:33:36 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,  18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:42:44 +0200
> 
> > Btw, I wonder whether we should have a way to pass the locale string
> > explicitly, instead of relying on $LC_COLLATE.
> 
> We could add an optional argument to string-collate-*. But this would
> break signature equivalence with string-lessp and string-equal,
> respectively.
> 
> Or we could introduce a global var, which shall be let-bound to the
> locale string.

Or have a new optional argument in string-lessp etc., or introduce a
new set of APIs which will accept a locale, and have string-lessp
etc. call them with that argument nil.

> This raises the question, whether we shall use also my first setlocale
> approach in case of uselocale absence?

I think so, yes.

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