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


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:11:44 +0200
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Il 27/06/2013 21:19, Chet Ramey ha scritto:
>> > I do not care too much which kind of locale specific ordering
>> > or collating or regex behaviour is actually implemented
>> > as long as it works consistently in grep, gawk, sed, bash,...
> This is Arnold's goal.

And the way he's solving it will not work on GNU distros (including
GNU/Linux of course), except for gawk.

> And I would add to it that we need the different
> programs to work consistently across different platforms.  I, for one,
> am interested in platforms other than Linux.

I noticed, because you (and Arnold) are doing absolutely nothing to make
it consistent on GNU platforms.

Paolo



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