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

[Ihor Radchenko]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>  > (string-collate-lessp "a" "B" "C" t)  ; => nil
>> Actually you wrote
>>> [FYI: If I replace nil with t, the procedure returns nil too.]
>>  From my point of view it is a reason to file an Emacs bug because I get
>>
>>      (string-collate-lessp "a" "B" "C" t) ; => t
>
> I submitted the bug report to Emacs.
> See https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=59275


According to the discussion on debbugs, it looks like we can use
`compare-strings' instead. It will be independent of the system locale
and always follow Unicode rules.

However, I am not sure if ignoring locale is something we really want.
WDYT?

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