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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:29:13 +0100
From:      Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
To:        Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UTF-8 Sorting
Message-ID:  <20140312142913.GA75261@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
In-Reply-To: <5320297F.1080400@ze.tum.de>
References:  <5320297F.1080400@ze.tum.de>

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Hi,

* Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de> [140312 10:31]:
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> I've a problem with FreeBSD, UTF-8 and Sorting.
> [..]
> The problem seams to be that the LC_COLLATE file in the de_DE.UTF-8
> locale is linked to ../la_LN.US-ASCII/LC_COLLATE (as are all
> LC_COLLATE Files in any UTF-8 locale).

> After some Research i found a Mail from Kuba Lida in December 2008
> (yeah that's 5 Years ago) stating the same Problem and got no response.

> Why isn't there a UTF-8 LC_COLLATE file for any language. Kuba Lida
> believed there was a Problem with multibyte collate files in FreeBSD.
> Is this true and are there plans to fix this problem.

AFAIR this is not just a question of changing the collate files.
Have a look at https://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation for
a project to fix that problem (stalled, unfortunately).

Wolfgang



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