On 06/02/2016 03:28 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > They are not ignored, just considered only secondary, if the first > order characters didn't provide an ordering. > > Ok. One would have no clue of that, either, from the --debug output. > > sort obviously knows the exact rules defined by the locale, or it > couldn't do its job.
sort merely calls strcoll(); all the rules are a black box to sort, and are really something that you have to know how strcoll() uses locale definitions. > How about a way to dump the rules in some > human-readable way? (In sort or another utility or a separate program > or whatever.) Similar to how James Youngman found a way to write out > regex definitions in Texinfo ... just a wish ... -karl It might be nicer to request the glibc folks to give human-readable descriptions of their locale files, and how strcoll() is affected by those definitions, since it is more than just sort(1) that is impacted. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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