Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Your 'nightmare' does seems specific to Mac OS. Your example is > collated correctly in all the es_ES locales on my Linux box, and also > in es_ES.UTF-8 on Solaris 10. > > We have no idea what data you collected to assert 'whatever platform > we use'. UTF-8 locales on Mac OS X are the only instance in C where I > am aware of the use of Unicode point order (quite a few scripting > languages do it, though). If the problem were widespread I would > expect it to be reported more than it is (and 'ls' output is > locale-specific in recent versions of Linux, and my IT team did get > several help requests about that).
I was clearly wrong. I must be more cautious in using this asseverations as I am a simple user with some experience working in Windows boxes, a very recent nice feelings working with Mac OS X and a very short knowledge in Suse Linux 9.x. So it is not advisable pick up comments here and to pretend reach a solid conclusion. Please, accept my apologies. Well, I am afraid I have to invest some hours trying to digest all what you have said here! I will come back as soon as possible with feedback. Thank you so much for your time and insight. Best regards, Ricardo -- Ricardo RodrÃguez Your XEN ICT Team _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
