On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:09:56PM +0100, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> Markus Kuhn wrote:
>
> > This property is in essence what makes the range notation in regular
> > expressions useful, because by selecting a range of characters in some
> > prefix of a string, you are guaranteed to select a consecutive sequence
> > of strings in a sorted list. With multi-pass comparison algorithms like
> > ISO, this property does not hold any more, and that is why many people
> > (including myself) prefer to hold on to the old naive "C" strcmp()
> > sorting order until we get a nicer single-pass sorting algorithm that is
> > guaranteed to be a homomorphism over string concatenation.
>
> Can't we have instead an alternative local available with single pass sorting
> algorythm ?
>
> Something like LC_COLLATE=en_GB.single_pass
>
> where we would sort as :
>
> ter
> tes
> t�r
> t�s
> tfs
>
> instead of the multipass ISO sorting which would be :
>
> ter
> t�r
> tes
> t�s
> tfs
yes, you can of caurse create suc a sorting, kind of
"ASCII" style for catering for all american needs.
Kind regards
Keld
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