From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sort-lines including non ASCII Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:57:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87zipveojj.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87bn2b6buh.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467755909 17567 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2016 21:58:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 21:58:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 23:58:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bKYMB-0007JM-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:58:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58272 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKYMA-0001pb-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKYLV-0001oF-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKYLR-0003Cq-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKYLR-0003BQ-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bKYLP-0006pB-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from 141.red-217-125-182.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([217.125.182.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 141.red-217-125-182.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:57:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.red-217-125-182.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p9occxMtZ8veO12fFiQwJF41SPw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:205214 Archived-At: Uwe Brauer writes: > Take the following Spanish example. > > Arrieta > Anton > Álvarez > > > Using sort-lines *does* not result in > > Álvarez > Anton > Arrieta > > But in > > Anton > Arrieta > Álvarez > > Which is contra intuitive. Does anybody know about a function with such > a feature? Any plans? (sort (list "Arrieta" "Antón" "Álvarez") 'string-collate-lessp) If that doesn't work, check your LOCALE (or LANG) environment variable (see the docstring of string-collate-lessp for details). Someting like (sort (list "Antón" "Arrieta" "Álvarez") (lambda (a b) (string-collate-lessp a b "es_ES.UTF-8" t))) should do the right thing regardless of your environment variables (at least on GNU/Linux).