Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:55:41 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Reidar Bratsberg <reidar@ravn.no> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Locale: LC_COLLATE error? Message-ID: <19981209215541.C16052@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981209181534.00a3295c@trost.ravn.no>; from Reidar Bratsberg on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 06:15:35PM %2B0100 References: <3.0.32.19981209181534.00a3295c@trost.ravn.no>
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On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 06:15:35PM +0100, Reidar Bratsberg wrote:
>
> I'm baffled, trying to understand the Locale for FreeBSD
> 2.2.7-RELEASE. It seems there's an error with LC_COLLATE
> as (in my case) Norwegian characters won't sort/compare
> correctly.
>
> My /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO_8859-1/ shows:
>
> LC_COLLATE -> ../lt_LN.ISO_8859-1/LC_COLLATE
> LC_CTYPE -> ../lt_LN.ISO_8859-1/LC_CTYPE
> LC_TIME
>
> This is from the standard distribution.
>
> My perl test script to check this is (just using Perl for
> testing, it's the same result in other programs):
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use POSIX qw(locale_h);
>
> setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "no_NO.ISO_8859-1");
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "no_NO.ISO_8859-1");
>
> @a = ('å', 'a', 'æ', 'e', 'ø');
>
> print sort(@a), "\n";
>
>
> This returns "aeåæø", which should be "aeæøå".
Seems it follows how it would be sorted in Swedish!
>
> Now, I've been trying to generate my own LC_COLLATE from
> a standard "source document" from the Norwegian standard
> commission. For this, I understand, localedef should be
> used. Localedef however, is only available from the GNU
> clib, and compiling/installing that is more than I really
> want to cope with now :-).
>
> Why the links the lt_LN.ISO_8859-1?
>
> Any ideas? Or if someone has a working LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE
> for Norwegian, I would appreciate it.
>
>
> Best,
> Reidar
>
>
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