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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems with alphabetic ordering in tables containing non ASCII chars
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 22:49:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737nnizdt.fsf@saiph.selenimh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inwjzv8x.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Tue, 05 Jul 2016 20:26:54 +0000")

Hello,

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Consider please the following example:
>
> | Anton   |
> | Álvarez |
> | Arrieta |
>
>
>   org-table-sort-lines using alphabetic ordering results in
>
>
> | Anton   |
> | Arrieta |
> | Álvarez |
>
> Which is contra intuitive to say the least. The accented A should be
> treated as if it did not have an accent resulting in
>
> | Álvarez |
> | Anton   |
> | Arrieta |

Alphabetic ordering uses `string-lessp', which doesn't fulfill your
needs here. You can however, sort by an arbitrary function using f or
F key.

In any case, char folding is a complicated matter, because it really
depends on the host language. I think development Emacs provides
something like this.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-05 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-05 20:26 problems with alphabetic ordering in tables containing non ASCII chars Uwe Brauer
2016-07-05 20:49 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-07-05 20:54   ` Uwe Brauer
2016-07-05 21:48     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-07-12  8:53       ` a possible solution (was: problems with alphabetic ordering in tables containing non ASCII chars) Uwe Brauer

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