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


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:22:09 -0700
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On 06/28/2013 09:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> I may even agree, but the fact remains that until you fix it in glibc,
> you have not fixed it.  As long as glibc doesn't change, there's no
> point in changing everything else.

Unfortunately, one reason to change glibc is: "Ouch! all these
GNU applications have awful workarounds for glibc's undesirable behavior."
So I'm afraid there is a point to changing modules outside glibc:
it strengthens the argument for changing glibc.




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