From: Malte Spiess <i1tnews@arcor.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to compare strings?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:19:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7k8fzqf.fsf@skikr.news.arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2696.1177880336.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Maciej Katafiasz <mathrick@gmail.com> writes:
> Den Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:06:29 +0200 skrev Lennart Borgman (gmail):
>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>> Because characters that have different order depending on the language
>>> have different codepoints inside Emacs, and thus the issue doesn't
>>> exist.
>>>
>>> Or am I missing something?
>>
>> I think that sorting differs more than that between different languages.
>> Or at least it used to do that. Perhaps things have changed today, I am
>> not sure.
>
> It does.
>
> Swedish:
> a ae o oe å ä ö
>
> German:
> a å ä ae o ö oe
Well, in Estonian it's even worse, since here the z is between the s and
the t (going r s z t u v) - so even with normal letters the sorting is
different. I should add that "z" is not part of the normal Estonian
alphabet, but you sort in foreign words like this.
> Cheers,
> Maciej
Greetings
Malte
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-29 16:23 How to compare strings? David Kastrup
2007-04-29 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-29 20:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-29 20:52 ` Maciej Katafiasz
[not found] ` <mailman.2696.1177880336.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-01 13:19 ` Malte Spiess [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2692.1177876391.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-29 20:39 ` Joost Kremers
2007-04-29 21:31 ` sigvaldi
2007-04-29 21:47 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-04-29 21:56 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-29 22:22 ` Jesper Harder
[not found] ` <mailman.2702.1177885779.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-29 23:06 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.2701.1177884177.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-29 22:08 ` Joost Kremers
2007-04-30 7:50 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-04-29 22:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-30 5:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-30 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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