Re: Setting LANG=sv_SE.ISO_8859-1 breaks 7.0 buildworld

From: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:53:20 +0100
Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:30:19PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:22:26PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>> 1) it should be sv_SE.ISO8859-1, not sv_SE.ISO_8859-1
>> ...
>>> 4) Test script reduced to minimum
>> Even not the awk bug but rather strcoll() or locale definition, reduced 
>> down to that:
> 
>> #include <locale.h>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <string.h>
>>
>> main() {
>> setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
>> printf ("%d\n", strcoll("ve","w"));
>> }
> 
> This is locale definition, I find (V,W); and (v,w); there, is that right 
> equivalences for sv_SE? I.e. is v=w in sv_SE sorting?
> 

Hi!
v and w is sorted the same in Swedish (it's probably a language bug 
really), so as an example, surnames beginning with v and w are mixed 
under the same entry in the phone books and so on.

Regards!
//Niclas
Received on Sun Nov 18 2007 - 11:24:08 UTC

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