close 23677
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 2016-06-02 4:09 p.m., Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/02/2016 03:28 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
They are not ignored, just considered only secondary, if the first
order characters didn't provide an ordering.
Ok. One would have no clue of that, either, from the --debug output.
sort obviously knows the exact rules defined by the locale, or it
couldn't do its job.
sort merely calls strcoll(); all the rules are a black box to sort, and
are really something that you have to know how strcoll() uses locale
definitions.
How about a way to dump the rules in some
human-readable way? (In sort or another utility or a separate program
or whatever.) Similar to how James Youngman found a way to write out
regex definitions in Texinfo ... just a wish ... -karl
It might be nicer to request the glibc folks to give human-readable
descriptions of their locale files, and how strcoll() is affected by
those definitions, since it is more than just sort(1) that is impacted.
With no further follow-ups in 2 years,
I'm closing this bug.
Discussion continue by replying to this thread.
-assaf
