Dear Chris, On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 02:24:04PM -0700, Chris Lamb wrote: > This is more of a slight weirdness in the C locale rather then > something in ee_EE. (ee_EE is still a good choice for reprotest, however, > because whilst en_US and friends sort the lower case before the upper > case, et_EE.UTF-8 and the "C" locale sort capital letters before the > lower case. Also, Estonian sorts the letter 'z' between 's' and 't'. > Also, I'm fun at parties.)
I bet you are! :)
> If that wasn't confusing enough, GNU Make then makes it even harder to
> make sorting deterministic in practice.
& thank you very much for the complete mail, not just the quoted part.
Fun, interesting and insightful to read and such a "nice" example of
the logical weirdnesses one can encounter when working on... software! :)
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Holger
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