On 2013-08-31, at 08:55, John Gilmore wrote: > > ... They use data transformations to make it possible > for two keys to be compared using a single CLC[L]. (DB2 does similar > things too.) > This can be particularly complex for literary collating conventions such as EN_US which DFSORT gets terribly wrong. I tried a PMR on this a few years ago. When I reported that DFSORT and a C program using strcoll() produce similar incorrect results, DFSORT and I agreed that the problem should belong to LE.
LE gave me WAD with a rationale so outrageous that I gave up in disgust, making no effort to escalate. "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience" -- diverse attributions, from George Carlin to Mark Twain to far older. If anyone else cares to take up the banner, I'll gladly donate my test cases, both DFSORT and C; a mere few dozen lines each. -- gil
