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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:29:00 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Konrad Jankowski <konrad.jankowski@bluemedia.pl>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.ORG>, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor@t-hosting.hu>
Subject:   Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:54:42AM +0200, Konrad Jankowski wrote:
> Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> > Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> >> In case of sort, I understarnd that it should explicitly handle wide 
> >> characters due to the different alphabet of the different languages 
> >> and yes, that seems to be a difficult task...
> >
> > Note that Konrad Jankowski in another SoC project is adding to our C 
> > library support for the Unicode collation algorithm, and importing the 
> > corresponding language-specific collation tables.
> >
> >
> Yes, and once this is done, sort will work out of he box, if it uses 
> strcoll. Already tried on a prototype.

Only GNU sort for multibyte chars. BSD sort is programmed too badly and 
can't be fixed even for single byte sorting.

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