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[Bug localedata/22550] es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation for Spanish with CLDR


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22550

--- Comment #7 from Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Héctor M. Monacci from comment #6)

> The Ñ letter still does. CH doesn't. LL doesn't.

I think Héctor is right here and we should only make Ñ special in *all*
Spanish locales.

Until now, only es_US (and es_EC which did copy "es_US") do anything
special at all for the collation. es_US does treat Ñ, CH, and LL as
special. So if we only treat Ñ as special from now on, this is
certainly an improvement for most Spanish locales over the current
state. And it follows the current official rules.  It could be a
regression only for user of es_US and es_EC which are used to the
traditional sorting rules.

Overall I think going with the current official rules is better than
using the traditional rules for some random number of es_* locales
where we just guess that the users of these locales would like the
tradtional rules.

Carlos and  Héctor are both from Argentina, Carlos prefers the
traditional rules and Héctor the current rules. So we have
a disagreement for es_AR already. In case of such a disagreement,
I think it is best just to follow the official rules.

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