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[Bug localedata/9844] New: Wrong collation of ĸ: should sort after 'q', not 'k'
- From: "martin dot pitt at ubuntu dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 14 Feb 2009 13:25:56 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/9844] New: Wrong collation of ĸ: should sort after 'q', not 'k'
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
>From https://launchpad.net/bugs/325159:
Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ĸ:
> It is used to denote the sound written as [q] in the International Phonetic
Alphabet (the voiceless uvular plosive). For collation purposes, it is therefore
considered to be a type of 'q', rather than a type of 'k', and should sort near 'q'.
At least in fi_FI.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8, ĸ appears next to k when sorted:
% for l in j k l p q r ĸ; do echo "$l"; done | sort | xargs
j k ĸ l p q r
Both Unicode[1] and ISO-14651[2] place ĸ after q and before r.
[1]: http://unicode.org/charts/collation/chart_Latin.html
[2]: http://www.iso.org/ittf/ISO14651_2006_TABLE1_En.txt
The locales seem to base the collation on
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1_common, which places ĸ after k. Perhaps the
file is based on an outdated version of the ISO-14651 table and needs to be updated.
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Summary: Wrong collation of ĸ: should sort after 'q', not
'k'
Product: glibc
Version: 2.8
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: martin dot pitt at ubuntu dot com
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9844
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