[Bug localedata/14038] New: strcoll sorting order

[ndrwrdck at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14038

             Bug #: 14038
           Summary: strcoll sorting order
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.13
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
        ReportedBy: ndrwrdck@gmail.com
                CC: libc-locales@sources.redhat.com
    Classification: Unclassified


(not sure if that's an implementation or documentation issue)

In utf8 locales, some string comparisons depend on the length of the strings,
not sure if that's supposed to work that way (if so, it would be good to have a
reference to a standard defining these rules in the docs) or it is just a bug.

For example, if strcoll is used as a comparison function, these strings will be
sorted as follows:

あ
a
あa
aa
あaa
aaa
あaaa

I'd expect the following order to be correct:

あ
あa
あaa
あaaa
a
aa
aaa

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