Re: index sorting in texi2any in C issue with spaces

[pertusus]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 12:07:17PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Feb 04 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > If we want collation which uses only codepoints, disregarding any
> > collation weights defined by the Unicode TR10, we could use
> > en_US.utf-8, but then, as Gavin says, using glibc collation function
> > you get more than you asked, because weights are not ignored.  So we
> > need to use something else in the C variant of collation code, AFAIU.
> 
> If you want pure codepoint order, you can just use strcmp on the UTF-8
> encoded strings.

We already do that if USE_UNICODE_COLLATION is set to 0, or as a
fallback if Unicode::Collate is not found in Perl, and as a fallback in
C if strxfrm_l or newlocale are not present and if the call to
  newlocale (LC_COLLATE_MASK, "en_US.utf-8", 0)
fails.

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Pat