[Bug localedata/498] Wrong sorting with the @euro modifier

[suy@kurly.org]

------- Additional Comments From suy at kurly dot org  2004-11-04 22:34 -------
First of all, note that I don't want that people lose their time, but at least, 
if this behaviour is justified, it will be documented in some place. 
 
(In reply to comment #4) 
> The behavoir you see is consistent with the lack of locale files for 
> es_ES, ca_ES, it_IT, it_IT@euro, gl_ES and gl_ES@euro.  These should 
> not sort the same way as C, but does in your example.  The sorting 
> order of es_ES@euro ca_ES@euro is correct.  Period (.) should be 
> ignored in the first level of sorting. 
 
Yes, sorry about this. When Jakub posted his comment, I investigated a bit 
more, and I saw that Debian ships only the templates, and that locales should 
be generated in the user's system (I thought that the files 
under /u/s/i18n/locales were enough). 
 
> The demonstrated behaviour is not a bug in glibc.  It is a problem 
> with your expectations and your installation.  Resolving as INVALID. 
 
Now the subject of the bug is innapropiate, I don't see how to change it, 
sorry. 
 
But what still I don't understand, is why the period is ignored. I tested this 
with my cell phone, and with Mac OS X (I suppose the BSD libc is the 
responsible here), and it is NOT ignored. 
 
IMHO, this is not what a user expects. Why spanish and catalan have different 
rules than english for this? I can ask the RAE (responsibles of spanish 
official dictionary, grammar, etc.) about this if you consider it necessary. 
 
Thanks in advance. 

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