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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Collation tests in fns-tests.el
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:10:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5633DCD8.7060706@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mvv0yucm.fsf@gnu.org>

On 10/30/2015 4:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You already said in that discussion what I'd suggest ;-)
>
> Since Cygwin tries to be compatible to GNU/Linux (i.e. glibc), it
> should indeed use some non-zero flags in its implementation of string
> collation-dependent comparison.  IMO, it makes no sense not to do
> that, since users expect that to happen.

Yes, I agree completely.  The issue is implementation.  Simply using the 
NORM_IGNORESYMBOLS flag yields comparison functions that can return 0 on 
unequal strings.  Eric pointed out the problem with that; moreover, it 
seriously violates users' expectations and compatibility with glibc.  I 
thought I had a way around that, but Corinna pointed out in 
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00559.html why my suggestion 
doesn't work.  At this point I'm out of ideas.

Ken




  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-30 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-30 17:51 Collation tests in fns-tests.el Ken Brown
2015-10-30 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 20:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 21:10   ` Ken Brown [this message]
2015-10-30 21:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 22:16       ` Ken Brown
2015-10-31  8:49         ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-31  9:07           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-02 16:25             ` Ken Brown

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