BUG in collate routines?!(Moved from hackers)

[Vahe Khachikyan]

Hi ,

Ruslan thank you for your answer.

Your forwarded test program works correctly.

Sorry for missleading information I think my problem was with the sort which
does strange sorting ...


The sort version is probably quite old
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/* $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/sort.c,v 1.15.2.4 2002/04/17 11:41:42 ache
Exp $ */
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os version  FreeBSD 4.8-RC it does the same on Alpha and on x386 platforms
with 4.8-RC
and just one week old 4.8 -stable.

I assume that the sort have no clue of ligatures or comparision of strings
with ligatures

Assumpsion of sort being an old version based on fact that , sort under
Linux works correctly.

--
Vahe Khachikyan
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: <vahe at khachikyan.de>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: [ache at nagual.pp.ru: Re: [vahe at khachikyan.de: BUG in collate
routines?!]]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:41:29 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> In case you didn't get this...

I not read hackers.
His information is wrong, test program included:

#include <locale.h>
main() {
setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "de_DE.ISO8859-1");
printf("%d\n",strcoll("\xdf", "sr"));
printf("%d\n",strcoll("\xdf", "ss"));
printf("%d\n",strcoll("\xdf", "st"));
}

>
> -- 
> Ruslan Ermilov  Sysadmin and DBA,
> ru at sunbay.com  Sunbay Software Ltd,
> ru at FreeBSD.org  FreeBSD committer

> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:57:59 +0200
> From: Vahe Khachikyan <vahe at khachikyan.de>
> Subject: BUG in collate routines?!
> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
>
> Hi ,
>
> I was making a new locale for Armenian and it seams that found a bug in
> substitute routines.
> The problem is, that the colldef with substitution seams to have a buggy
> behaviour.
> When a locale has a LC_COLLATE defined with a substitution like German 'ß'
> which is
> substituted with 'ss', then a strcoll of strings 'sr' and 'ß' returns the
> same value like
> strcoll of 'st' and 'ß'. The colldef file for de_DE.ISO8859-1 says that
the
> german ligature
> 'ß' should be substituded with 'ss'.
> I hope that I understood the meaning of substitude in colldef correctly,
at
> least on Linux it works
> as awaited.
>
> Should we make a patch for libc or is this a correct behaviour?
>
> --
> Vahe Khachikyan
> ---
>
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