In <5227bf91.7010...@aim.com>, on 09/04/2013
at 05:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>> On 1 September 2013 00:51, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>> LE gave me WAD with a rationale so outrageous that I gave up in
>>> disgust, making no effort to escalate.
An outrageous rationale is precisely when there is the best case to
escalate.
>> Isn't it a POSIX violation to produce incorrect collation results for
>> a locale? Not, I suppose, that that's stopped them before.
Yes. If you can find suitable contacts in the UNIX® community[1],
getting that in the compliance test suite would guaranty that IBM
fixes it.
[1] Presumably either POSIX or The Open Group would do.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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