On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:54:15PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > That's true, in the sense that unconverted strings are not hashable. > This is what strxfrm was created for, to return the sorting key for a > string. A quick C program demonstrates that indeed in that locale these > two strings are equal, whereas in en_AU they are not.
FWIW, here's some links to Microsoft and MySQL dealing with the same issue, so we're not alone here. Hungarian seems to be a complex language to sort, but it seems that glibc is right in this case. http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/11/13/491646.aspx http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12519 Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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