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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: winkler@gnu.org
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strip accents and sorting [was: BibTeX issues]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:38:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837e6ua47y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838sraa6e3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:51:32 +0300)

> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:51:32 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:27:33 -0500
> > From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> >     emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > > But (string-collate-lessp "ä-umlaut" "ö-combine") gives t
> > 
> > ...not for me, which is likely due to my locale LC_COLLATE=C
> > 
> > I could use instead, say, LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8.  Then the above
> > call of string-collate-lessp yields t.  But this also implies case
> > folding and ignoring dots in directory listings, which is not what I
> > want.  In other words, these locales have too many features bundled
> > together.
> 
> You could set LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 inside Emacs, or even bind it
> around the call to string-collate-lessp.  I think we support that on
> GNU/Linux.

Actually, string-collate-lessp accepts an optional argument LOCALE
that can be used for that.  So it's even easier than I remembered.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-30 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27  8:40 BibTeX issues Joost Kremers
2019-08-28 17:45 ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-28 18:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29  3:26     ` strip accents and sorting [was: BibTeX issues] Roland Winkler
2019-08-29  6:15       ` martin rudalics
2019-08-30 16:27         ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-30 17:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 18:38             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-30 19:09               ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-30 19:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 19:49                   ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-31  6:45                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29  7:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 16:29         ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-29  7:49   ` BibTeX issues Joost Kremers
2019-08-30 19:18     ` Roland Winkler

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