Re: [Patch 0/13] [BZ #14095] update collation data from Unicode / ISO 14651

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 01/26/2018 02:51 AM, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> 
> This set of patches updates our
> glibc/localedata/locales/iso14651_t1_common file to the latest
> available version from ISO and adapts the collation rules of all
> locales using “copy "iso14651_t1"” to the changes in the new file.
> 
> The ISO standard 14651:2016 is available here:
> 
> ISO/IEC 14651:2016: https://www.iso.org/standard/68309.html
> 
> And a POSIX style LC_COLLATE file is downloadable from:
> 
> http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html
> http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c068309_ISO_IEC_14651_2016.zip
> 
> This .zip file contains a ISO14651_2017_TABLE1_en.txt which is in a
> similar format as our current iso14651_t1_common and can be used as an
> update.
> 
> That file is unfortunately up-to-date only with Unicode 8.0.0,
> but that is already a huge improvement over what we have now.
> 
> Also, that file contained some errors which needed to be fixed.
> Seems strange for a file release by ISO, but it really contained
> some errors.
> 
> And as the names for most collation symbols have been changed, all the
> collation rules of locales using “copy "iso14651_t1"” needed to be
> updated.
> 
> While doing that, I made the collation rules of all locales I touched
> agree with the CLDR collation rules. glibc has several locales which are
> not in CLDR, for these I just adapted the existing rules.
 
Thanks for doing this work!

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Cheers,
Carlos.