From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sort-lines including non ASCII
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:32:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360sgk5bd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn283gr2.fsf@iki.fi> (message from Teemu Likonen on Fri, 08 Jul 2016 07:17:53 +0300)
> From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 07:17:53 +0300
>
> >> If we are allowed to step outside Emacs filtering lines through (GNU)
> >> /usr/bin/sort should do what you want.
> >
> > Only if the locale outside Emacs is the one you want to use for
> > collation. Emacs is a multilingual environment, so it supports
> > multiple collating locales, independently of the system one.
>
> Yes, Emacs is nice, but system's locale is just some installed files and
> environment variables. They can be changed too. Here's an example how to
> sort lines using locale fi_FI.UTF-8 in GNU systems:
>
> M-x shell-command-on-region RET LC_COLLATE=fi_FI.UTF-8 sort RET
Why would one need that, given that Emacs includes the same
functionality built-in now?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-05 20:58 sort-lines including non ASCII Uwe Brauer
2016-07-05 21:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-07 7:35 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-07-06 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 14:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-07 7:34 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-07-07 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-07 16:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-07 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-07 17:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-07 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-07 22:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-08 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-14 21:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-14 21:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-14 21:19 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-14 21:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-14 21:57 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-08 13:40 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-08 14:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-09 16:58 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-12 23:06 ` John Wiegley
2016-07-07 7:41 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-07-07 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-07 16:13 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-07-07 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-07 8:23 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-07-07 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-08 4:17 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-07-08 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-08 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-08 6:50 ` Teemu Likonen
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