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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 12008@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12008: Alphabetic sorting respect user's language and/or locale
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:24:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtxx0kscs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83liid14u0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:01:11 +0300")

> A simple way of doing this goes along the following lines:
>   Lisp_Object enc_str1 = ENCODE_SYSTEM (string1);
>   Lisp_Object enc_str2 = ENCODE_SYSTEM (string2);
>   return make_number (strcoll (enc_str1, enc_str2));

That's probably OK for dired'd sorting but not for sort-subr where we
need to be independent from the system locale.  So better would be to
switch the locale to utf-8 and call strcoll without calling
ENCODE_SYSTEM (tho of course, only if the strings are multibyte).


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-22 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-21 14:32 bug#12008: Alphabetic sorting respect user's language and/or locale martin rudalics
2012-07-21 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-21 16:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-22 10:24   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-07-22 15:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-23  8:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-23 15:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-23 23:30           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-23  9:34       ` martin rudalics
2012-07-23 15:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-23 15:49           ` martin rudalics
2012-07-23 15:55             ` Eli Zaretskii

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