Re: strip accents and sorting [was: BibTeX issues]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:51:32 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:27:33 -0500
> > From: "Roland Winkler" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
> >     address@hidden
> > 
> > > But (string-collate-lessp "ä-umlaut" "ö-combine") gives t
> > 
> > ...not for me, which is likely due to my locale LC_COLLATE=C
> > 
> > I could use instead, say, LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8.  Then the above
> > call of string-collate-lessp yields t.  But this also implies case
> > folding and ignoring dots in directory listings, which is not what I
> > want.  In other words, these locales have too many features bundled
> > together.
> 
> You could set LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 inside Emacs, or even bind it
> around the call to string-collate-lessp.  I think we support that on
> GNU/Linux.

Actually, string-collate-lessp accepts an optional argument LOCALE
that can be used for that.  So it's even easier than I remembered.