Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru> writes: >> "BSD sort" as an idea will be a good project indeed, but "BSD sort" >> implementation we currently have at hand is totally misleading and should >> be rewritten from the scratch, I realize it when long time ago I try to >> localize it for single byte locales. > > I think part of the problem is that there aren't enough people who truly > understand localization. I think I understand most of it, but I'm > pretty sure I *don't* understand how collation works, or is supposed to > work. Amongst other things, I don't understand how (or whether) it > handles cases like "aa" and "å", which are considered the same letter in > Norwegian. > > Perhaps you could create a Localization page on wiki.freebsd.org which > addresses these issues, or at least points to relevant resources? Good regression test suite which would include cases in different single and multi-byte locates for grep/sort/etc could also be a big help. Regards, -- Maksym Sobolyev Sippy Software, Inc. Internet Telephony (VoIP) Experts T/F: +1-646-651-1110 Web: http://www.sippysoft.comReceived on Wed Jun 18 2008 - 20:30:24 UTC
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