Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:12:31 +0100 From: Henrik Bergkvist <henrik@mdfnet.se> To: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com>, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting LANG=sv_SE.ISO_8859-1 breaks 7.0 buildworld Message-ID: <4740565F.2050007@mdfnet.se> In-Reply-To: <474027B0.3070309@gmail.com> References: <473FE18B.2090303@gneto.com> <20071118112226.GA20540@nagual.pp.ru> <20071118113019.GA21519@nagual.pp.ru> <20071118113616.GB21519@nagual.pp.ru> <474027B0.3070309@gmail.com>
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Niclas Zeising wrote:
> Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:30:19PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:22:26PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>>> 1) it should be sv_SE.ISO8859-1, not sv_SE.ISO_8859-1
>>> ...
>>>> 4) Test script reduced to minimum
>>> Even not the awk bug but rather strcoll() or locale definition,
>>> reduced down to that:
>>
>>> #include <locale.h>
>>> #include <stdio.h>
>>> #include <string.h>
>>>
>>> main() {
>>> setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
>>> printf ("%d\n", strcoll("ve","w"));
>>> }
>>
>> This is locale definition, I find (V,W); and (v,w); there, is that
>> right equivalences for sv_SE? I.e. is v=w in sv_SE sorting?
>>
>
> Hi!
> v and w is sorted the same in Swedish (it's probably a language bug
> really), so as an example, surnames beginning with v and w are mixed
> under the same entry in the phone books and so on.
Since SAOL 13:th edition it's changed. They now consider it two
different characters, so I guess the correct way is to not sort it as
the same anymore.
References in swedish.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=538744&previousRenderType=3
/Henrik
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