[Bug localedata/17750] wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17750

--- Comment #26 from Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail dot com> ---
>
> >
> > If this is indeed what's correct for these languages / what people
> living there
> > prefer then it's okay for me. I'm just hoping that the kinda de-facto
> standard
> > en_US will stay with forward diacrits. I _guess_ Spanish is more
> frequently
> > used there than French, plus again, I can't imagine how anyone ever
> could have
> > come up with this braindamaged idea of backward diacrit sorting so I'd
> > personally prefer en_US not to have this craziness :-)
>
> the kind of defacto i18n locale has forward diacrits. i18n is the standard
> locale of ISO TR 30112.
> I think both Spanish and German needs forward diacrits, and Spanish being
> a bigger
> language than French would give that we should use forward diacrit as the
> default.
>
>
Don't forget that the conquistadores brought Spanish orthograohy to many of
the indigenous languages of the Americas as well, small in Intenet
footprint and speaker count, large in language count.

cjl

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