From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4465 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2004 18:38:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4452 invoked by uid 48); 12 Sep 2004 18:38:20 -0000 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20040912183820.4451.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20040908235331.374.munzirtaha@newhorizons.com.sa> References: <20040908235331.374.munzirtaha@newhorizons.com.sa> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug libc/374] The rules in LC_COLLATE are random and sometimes clearly wrong X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00062.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa 2004-09-12 18:38 ------- Some hints: 1. There should be no difference between en_US and en_CA. 2. de (sorry not da) sorting is very odd. (the character "-" has a 1st order sorting value, coming before letters and numbers; on most other locales "-" is ignored in sorting) 3. ar_SA handles "-" as a collatable element coming after "z". ar_SA defines LC_COLLATE using an old syntax (with only one level of collating weight); so maybe this special weight for "-" wasn't intended to be like that; just a side-effet. Maybe the LC_COLLATE section should be redefined to use the default one and only redefine (if needed) the sorting of arabic script letters only. Thanks to Mr. Pablo of Mandrake for discussing the issue with me. I borrowed some of his comments. -- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=374 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.