From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strip accents and sorting [was: BibTeX issues]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:27:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20085.68375.750044.23913@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f87102db-6bc5-e1b6-f490-72554f15694c@gmx.at>
On Thu Aug 29 2019 martin rudalics wrote:
> > But (string-lessp "ä-umlaut" "ö-combine") gives nil
>
> 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.
Maybe these feature sets of different locales are documented
*somewhere* in a neat way, and there is a locale with a feature set
that does exactly what I want. But to the best of my knowledge this
documentation resides outside emacs so that things get rather
complicated when this affects an emacs session in important or
possibly subtle ways.
> so it should be fairly easy to fix `sort-lines' and friends
> accordingly.
In that sense I am not sure I would like to see `sort-lines' and
friends be fixed "accordingly". If at all, I'd vote for a user
option that likely I'd use to disable such things.
On the other hand, as Eli pointed out in his reply about accented
characters being represented via a single character as compared to
using combining characters
> The Unicode Standard mandates that they be handled identically,
> including in searching and sorting. We don't yet implement that
> 100%, but see char-fold.el for a partial (and not very efficient)
> implementation during search.
So I would assume that the locale should not matter at all in the
context of unicode combining characters. (Or there should be a way
to control exactly this aspect of unicode combining characters with
no additional (mis)features bundled with it.)
I understand that it is a different matter how accented characters
are sorted relative to each other and also relative to un-accented
characters. So it can make a lot of sense to have different locales
for that aspect.
Maybe I am missing something here. (And I have not yet looked in
more detail at char-fold.el mentioned by Eli, which could be a
better way to go within the emacs world.)
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-30 16:27 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 [this message]
2019-08-30 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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