[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 #24 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #21)

> Well, in Finnish and other Nordic languages like Danish, Swedish and
> Norwegian, ö and ä etc
> are not considered accented letters, but genuine separated letters, so that
> is why 
> there are few strings with more than one accented letter.

Thanks for the explanation! (This actually should have occurred to me, as the
famous Swedish yellow-blue furniture store offers framed pictures and bed linen
showing the Swedish alphabet, with ÅÄÖ at the end.)

To clarify: If they sort German words containing ä and ö, they're sorted among
the same letters of their own language, right? And what about French accents,
are they on the other hand mixed together with their unaccented counterparts?

> German umlaut letters are much the same in Finnish (and Swedish) and ä and ö
> are
> then the same as the genuine Finnish/Swedish letters.

What about German ü?

(In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #22)

> [...] Then there is a spec from Danish Standard
> that is more elaborate [...] with the backwards diacrit spec.

I'm shocked to hear that there's not only one language but more languages that
use backwards diacritics, something that IMO no sane man with any tiny bit of
common sense would ever decide on :-)

(In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #23)

> 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.

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 :-)

Cheers!

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