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Re: maint: skip a check when en_US.UTF-8 collation rules are broken
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: maint: skip a check when en_US.UTF-8 collation rules are broken |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:41:00 +0100 |
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On 25/07/16 16:48, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On OS X, *.UTF-8 locales use ASCII collating rules(!?):
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> $ readlink /usr/share/locale/*.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE|sort -u
> ../la_LN.US-ASCII/LC_COLLATE
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> This means that sort, and any other program that relies on strcoll,
> cannot be expected to work consistently on OS X in any UTF-8 locale.
Wow.
The change looks good.
thanks