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

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Message #254 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: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, dmantipov <at> yandex.ru,
 18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18051: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117726: Add string collation.
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:01:50 +0200

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

> Case-insensitive versions of the new functions are yet to be written;
> stay tuned.

I've just committed a patch to the trunk which adds optional arguments
LOCALE and IGNORE-CASE to the collation functions.

> For now, on MS-Windows, you can have that if you use the
> NORM_IGNORECASE flag as the second argument of CompareStringW inside
> w32_compare_strings.

As usual, this I haven't implemented. I would let it to you, Eli.

> For Posix, I guess we should run the 2 strings through towupper (or
> towupper_l, if it exists), and then compare the results with
> wcscoll/wcscoll_l.

Yes.

Best regards, Michael.

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