From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Madhu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: string-collate-lessp in elisp Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:52:53 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10772"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:RjayrcM1Hv4jh4C+uo9RfeZsEVw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 08:27:20 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sVQ2S-0002f1-Dj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:27:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVQ1q-0001k6-Qd; Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:26:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVQ1m-0001jt-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVQ1l-0000PM-Em for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sVQ1j-0001pu-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:26:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147288 Archived-At: I can sort lines with "accents" by calling STRING-COLLATE-LESSP with an optional "en_US.UTF-8" LOCALE parameter. But would it be possible to implement the string comparison function in emacs directly using the unicode data that emacs already has? If someone has a pointer to the collation rules that have to be implemented and maybe prior work, I'd appreciate it. -- Thanks, Madhu