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[Bug localedata/17750] wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
- From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:04:37 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/17750] wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
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- References: <bug-17750-716 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17750
Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Alexandre Oliva from comment #3)
> Even if your assumption that more than one diacritic in a word implied the
> word was in French, there are various other points that make your suggestion
> flawed.
>
> First of all, the forward or backward accent ordering doesn't even apply to
> all French speakers.
>
> Second, there are words with more than one diacritic in other languages. I
> happen to be a native speaker of one such language.
>
> Third, you don't need more than one diacritic in a word to trigger the
> problem. Consider Cortes, CÃrtes, and CortÃs; pelo, pÃlo, pelÃ;
> Schlagerforderung, SchlagerfÃrderung, SchlÃgerforderung, SchlÃgerfÃrderung.
>
> Fourth, Unicode and CLDR are the result of a lot of work by a lot of people
> who study lots of languages and local customs. It would take a lot more
> than groundless speculation to conclude they're wrong. (Which is not to say
> they're perfect in all regards, of course ;-)
I agree with Alex. We would need a very detailed analysis of why CLDR is wrong
to ignore their implementation and do something different.
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