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Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:12:52 -0400
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On 5/21/12 5:02 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:

>     I.e. Unicode does specify ordering, so if your locale is set
> to UTF-8 character encoding, then it is explicitly defined.  This would
> seem to be in conflict with unicode -- and any implementation claiming
> to be unicode compatible MUST use unicode ordering when the local character
> set is defined to be Unicode.
> 

Then write the locale definitions that way -- that's Eric's point.

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