Re: test-org-table/sort-lines: Failing test on macOS

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>> However, I feel a bit lost about what to do on Org side.
>> We can put a disclaimer in the manual and all that, but it still feels
>> too complex.
>
> My current suggestion is to provide a fallback to `downcase' in the code 
> and to explain in the manual that runtime environments (OSes) are not 
> equal and quality of locale support varies. Emacs heavily depends on 
> libc in this area.

This sounds like something to be adapted to Emacs upstream.
I suggested to change `string-collate-lessp' fallback behaviour to use
`downcase' when IGNORE-CASE is non-nil. See my last message in
bug#59275.

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