From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: strip accents and sorting [was: BibTeX issues] Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:38:25 +0300 Message-ID: <837e6ua47y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mufv2e9s.fsf@uni-bielefeld.de> <87ftllji9u.fsf@gnu.org> <83tva1b02r.fsf@gnu.org> <17902.3833.825923.23911@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20085.68375.750044.23913@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <838sraa6e3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="198043"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: winkler@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 30 20:52:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i3m0X-000pMx-MZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:52:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40564 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3m0V-0003jO-RH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3lze-0003ii-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i3lzd-0002bR-MW; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:51:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4008 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i3lmp-0004ra-JE; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:38:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <838sraa6e3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:51:32 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239709 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:51:32 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:27:33 -0500 > > From: "Roland Winkler" > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > > 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.