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

["keld at keldix dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

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

--- Comment #23 from keld at keldix dot com <keld at keldix dot com> ---
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 08:14:33PM +0000, egmont at gmail dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17750
> 
> --- Comment #20 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail dot com> ---
> (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #19)
> 
> > I expect that many languages/scripts have multiple collation rules,
> > depending on use, particularly when it comes to sorting foreign languages
> > using the same base script.
> 
> Let's not forget that most languages with Latin scripts do use accents
> regularly. I don't think glibc allows different diacrit ordering for "own"
> accents and "foreign" accents, e.g. in case of Finnish to use forward diacrit
> ordering for ä and ö, and backward diacrit ordering for é and û (and what if
> they're mixed?).

I agree that glibc does not distinguish between "own" accented letters, and
foreign.
Bot ä and ö are not accented letters in Finnish, they are genuine separate
letters with
their own place in the alphabeth.

> In my opinion, the only valid question is what to do with English in
> territories where French is by far the second most popular language: is it
> reasonable to go with backward diacrits ordering there?

That is what I am suggesting, at least for Canada.
The same reasoning could be done for Dutch in Belgium, and then also the
Netherlands.

Best regards
Keld

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