On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi again, > > Filipus Klutiero wrote: > >> strcoll(3) explains that: > [...] >>> The >>> comparison is based on strings interpreted as appropriate for the >>> program's current locale for category LC_COLLATE. (See setlocale(3).) >> >> Unfortunately, it seems the way collation happens depending on the >> LC_COLLATE locale is unspecified. I couldn't find any description, even >> upstream. > > Cc-ing the manpages-dev maintainers (sorry I forgot to do so before). > > Where to go from here? I believe giving a summary of the collation > order chosen for each locale would be a lot of work for very little > gain (unless there are some important details common to most locales), > so I would suggest pointing to the locale generation tools and locale > sources to help the reader to find these things out for herself > instead.
That sounds a reasonable approach to me. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
