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[Bug localedata/19376] regex reports "Invalid collation character" for Syriac characters


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19376

--- Comment #6 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to joseph@codesourcery.com from comment #5)
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2015, carlos at redhat dot com wrote:
> 
> > Well the localedata is updated as much as possible and we're on Unicode 8.0.0
> > right now for UTF-8 charsets.
> 
> Collation, however, is much more out of date (and probably harder to 
> correlate with Unicode so we can make sure we're not losing desirable 
> local changes if we update it).  See bug 14095.

Correct, so if it's a collation issue, likely maybe, then it would be good to
find a reproducer that shows via strlcoll the problem with Syriac characters.
Until then an english speaking developer is going to have a hard time figuring
this out, or the issue will go away once we start automating the collation data
updates also (which should be our plan).

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