From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 88352 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2017 13:11:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 88261 invoked by uid 55); 29 Nov 2017 13:11:05 -0000 From: "keld at keldix dot com" To: libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/17750] wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:11:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: keld at keldix dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Resolution: FIXED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: aoliva at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: 2.27 X-Bugzilla-Flags: security- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2017-q4/txt/msg00269.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D17750 --- Comment #16 from keld at keldix dot com --- Well all french language locales should be diacrit backward. fr_FR, fr_BE, fr_CH and others. Also other languages, where french words and names are the biggest source of multiple accented characters should have diacrit backward. This goes for Danish (my own language), Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch. Best regards keld On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:57:48AM +0000, cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org wro= te: > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D17750 >=20 >=20 > The only locale which currently needs backward accents sorting is fr_= CA. > Therefore, forward accents sorting should be the default. >=20 > Before this patch, backwards accent sorting was the default and all > locales except fr_CA had to use >=20 > define DIACRIT_FORWARD >=20 > before >=20 > copy "iso14651_t1" >=20 > Most locales didn???t do that and thus got the inappropriate backwards > accents sorting > by accident. Now only the fr_CA locale needs to use >=20 > define DIACRIT_BACKWARD >=20 > before >=20 > copy "iso14651_t1" >=20 > Original patch slightly modified by: Mike FABIAN --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.