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List:       mandrake-cooker-i18n
Subject:    Re: [i18n] locales are broken in COLLATE'ing
From:       Munzir Taha <munzirtaha () newhorizons ! com ! sa>
Date:       2004-09-08 23:56:04
Message-ID: 200409090256.04819.munzirtaha () newhorizons ! com ! sa
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On Yaum al-Arbi'a 23 Rajab 1425 23:50, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> Kaixo!

> I think nobody actually thought very hard at that issue and that the
> rules in LC_COLLATE to that aspect are random.

This is exactly what I want to say. Now, I filed this bug:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=374

> Maybe some big locales definitions proofreading should be launched
> by glibc maintainers.
>

> > If I am going to use sort, why don't we get rid of all these collate
> > complications in favor of sort -d then?
>
> the output is different:

Ah! I got your point. Thanks.

> PS: there haven't been updates of Arabic translations lately, it would
> be nice if a last run can be done on them so that Arabic is at 100%
> for the release date.

OK! and thanks for the reminder.

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