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

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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, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:02:08 +0200

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

> True.  So I suggest to define a new variable, say,
> string-collate-options, which is a key-value list with up to 2
> members: ':locale' (a string), and ':case-fold' (a flag).  If the
> locale's codeset is UTF-8, the collation on Windows will emulate what
> glibc evidently does.  Lisp programs will bind string-collate-options
> to the value they need.
>
> Then we can remove the reference to process-environment from the code
> of string_collate.
>
> WDYT?

Sounds OK to me.

Nest regards, Michael.

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