Re: [PATCH] Check sorting of MAINTAINERS

["Martin Liška" <mliska@suse.cz>]

On 1/11/22 10:38, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:27:19AM +0100, Martin Liška wrote:
>> On 1/10/22 17:14, Martin Liška wrote:
>>> Are you fine with the suggested changes?
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Jakub had comments so I'm sending v2 where I added few parsing
>> exceptions. Now it reports:
> 
> I'm still surprised by what the sort is doing,
> ( echo Chene; echo Chêne; echo Chfne ) | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sort
> Chene
> Chêne
> Chfne
> That is on glibc 2.32.  On glibc 2.34.9000 I get a different order though,
> Chêne last.
> That partly ruins the idea of the checking script when the sorting isn't
> the same for many people, either the script will be failing for many people
> or various people will be changing the order there and back all the time.
> 
> 	Jakub
> 

Or we can utilize https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode python package that provides:

In [7]: unidecode.unidecode('Jääskeläinen')
Out[7]: 'Jaaskelainen'

and sort it by that.

Martin