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Re: [Bug localedata/3405] sort order on pt_BR
- From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld at dkuug dot dk>
- To: pere at hungry dot com <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:45:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Bug localedata/3405] sort order on pt_BR
- References: <20061021013918.3405.walter.php@gmail.com> <20070130162322.17458.qmail@sourceware.org>
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:23:22PM -0000, pere at hungry dot com wrote:
>
> ------- Additional Comments From pere at hungry dot com 2007-01-30 16:23 -------
> Can you provide any references specifying that space should be handled
> as a letter when soring in brazilian portugese? Because if not, I suspect
> you are mistaken when you believe space should be sorted that way.
In most languages using a script with letters, you have two ordering
schemes, the standard one, and the word-by-word one. In the latter, space
is significant on the first level. So both are correct, culturally.
I don't know how we can have an easy way to have both schemes available
to the user, except we provide two locales, with a small delta
(replace-after) to make the word-by-word locale. And then a general
naming scheme so the user can chose easily, like the @euro variants.
best regards
Keld