Re: [dict-beta] Index.c and dictfmt.c don't agree on locale specific sorting

Hi,

The problem is that sort uses strcoll directly on the words, whereas index.c
uses strcoll to  order individual characters and than implements the
lexicographic comparison using the ordering of the characters. Index.c is wrong
because it will sort accented characters as if they were different from
characters with no accent. All words starting with 'á' will come after words
starting with 'a'. That is, "ábaco" will come after "azeite",  which is wrong
under pt_BR (or en_US for that matter). Naturally, the "sort" utility doesn't
have this problem.

The best thing would be to fix index.c, but as I pointed out, this is more
complicated than fixing dictfmt to avoid calling "sort", matching the ordering
expected by index.c instead.

Let me know if you need more info.

[]s,
Diego.


		
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