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Re: [bug-recutils] Locale issues [was: Comparison operator on reals fail


From: John Darrington
Subject: Re: [bug-recutils] Locale issues [was: Comparison operator on reals fails]
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:24:48 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:23:54PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
     
                  * How does locale affect other things.  For example: 
                         - does LC_COLLATE change the sort order?
              
              No, because we are using strcmp to implement the lexicographic 
order
              used when sorting strings.  That function uses the integer 
character
              codes for the comparison.
         
         Is that the behaviour users want?
         
         I imagine that French users would expect an e-acute to appear near the 
         unaccented e and Germans would like their sharp-S to appear near the 
         normal S.  And presumably the Spanish like their N-with-squiggle to be
         near the naked N.  
         
     We could use strcoll instead, but then the sorting will depend on the
     locale.

I guess that's the big question.  Is that what should happen?

In general, I would say Yes.   It would seem strange if ??pfel 
appears after Zuwachs, just because it's bit pattern happens to be 
numerically higher.  On the other hand problems can arise if a recfile is
written in a (say) iso-8859-1 locale and interpreted in a UTF8 locale.
But that would cause other problems too regardless of sorting.

J'

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