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bug#23677: sort --debug not ignoring punctuation when sort does
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Eric Blake |
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bug#23677: sort --debug not ignoring punctuation when sort does |
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Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:09:14 -0600 |
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On 06/02/2016 03:28 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> They are not ignored, just considered only secondary, if the first
> order characters didn't provide an ordering.
>
> Ok. One would have no clue of that, either, from the --debug output.
>
> sort obviously knows the exact rules defined by the locale, or it
> couldn't do its job.
sort merely calls strcoll(); all the rules are a black box to sort, and
are really something that you have to know how strcoll() uses locale
definitions.
> How about a way to dump the rules in some
> human-readable way? (In sort or another utility or a separate program
> or whatever.) Similar to how James Youngman found a way to write out
> regex definitions in Texinfo ... just a wish ... -karl
It might be nicer to request the glibc folks to give human-readable
descriptions of their locale files, and how strcoll() is affected by
those definitions, since it is more than just sort(1) that is impacted.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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