Re: New bulgarian locale

[Anton Zinoviev]

On  5.XII.2001 at 10:49 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Alexander Shopov <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 3. Sorting that is nearer to something most people here agree with.
> 
> What doeds this mean?  Computer people normally have a completely
> wrong understanding of sorting.  Many still expect strcmp() behavior
> from strcoll().  Is this new sorting order what would be used in, say,
> a library catalog?  If not this is a problem since this kind of
> sorting (or lexicon sorting) is exactly what is needed.

We have separate book catalogs for Cyrillic and Latin books, but in book
indexes the Cyrillic items are usually before the Latin items. That's
one of the reasons we decided that the Cyrillic letters must be sorted
before the non-Cyrillic letters.

In the library catalogs non-Bulgarian Cyrillic letters are sorted
acording to their closest representation by Bulgarian letters.  This is
the second change we've made.

In all other aspects the collation scheme in the new locale follows
the standard deffinition in iso14651_t1.

Anton Zinoviev