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Re: [Bug localedata/17750] wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
- From: Keld Simonsen <keld at keldix dot com>
- To: carlos at redhat dot com <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:24:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: [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/> <bug-17750-716-RBWd5QRG37 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:35:11PM +0000, carlos at redhat dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17750
>
> --- Comment #7 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
> (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #6)
> > Fixing this will change the sort order of existing data, which is quite
> > risky. Is it really worth it?
>
> For the long term support of locales it must change. Unless we get more
> maintainers my plan is to conintue to push that we match CLDR, UNICODE and thus
> exactly what libicu does and reduce the "surprise" for developers going from
> java to C/C++ or vice-versa.
The fix is wrong, IMHO.
Best regards
Keld