I'm trying this again, with a different technique: On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:26:04 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: > > Sorting is a cultural thing (where "culture" can include C programming > as much as French-in-France, French-in-Canada, English, German, etc.) > And each culture may have multiple sort orders appropriate for > different circumstances. For example French dictionaries have a > different order from French phonebooks; a French phonebook user may > expect to find the name duPont under P, not under D. Even in English, > where do you expect to find castor-oil in the list above? Surely the > hyphen should be given lower weighting than even the letters that > follow it, so that it comes out after castor bean. How about Caesar vs > Cæsar or Noel vs Noël? Google search knows that they are the same > thing, but Gmail flunks the latter in its spelling checker. What does > the "ls" command think? > OK. As Shane suggested, it depends on Locale setting (same for DFSORT). With OpenSolaris's default (whatever):
506 $ ls -1 Документы Caesar Cæsar castor Castor castor bean castor-oil Noel Noël 507 $ (Emailed to list with: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ) Are you suggesting that diacritical marks should be considered embellishments, lacking semantic significance? Ask a Spanish speaker whether "año" is the same as "ano". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
