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Re: Why is the sort-test ignoring ':', '(' and ';' and trailing space
- From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld at dkuug dot dk>
- To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:01:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: Why is the sort-test ignoring ':', '(' and ';' and trailing space
- References: <E19ZG1i-00009m-00@saruman.uio.no> <2flwu91mw2e.fsf@saruman.uio.no>
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:54:17AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Petter Reinholdtsen, 2003-07-06]
> > I just discovered that the current sort test is ignoring the three
> > characters ':', '(' and ';', and is skipping trailing whitespace. Why
> > is this?
>
> I got no reply to this one, so I assume there is no good reason for
> it. Unless someone come up with a good explanation soon, I'll prepare
> and submit patches to modify the sort tests, and the sort test data
> that need to change because of this.
It is probeably not ignoring these characters, but handling them as
special characters, which are ignored at the first 3 levels, and then
handled at level 4. This is in accordance with many national and
international standards.
Maybe you can give more information, locale, test data, for what you see
is a problem?
Best regards
keld