[Bug localedata/17750] wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales

[carlos at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17750

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Alexandre Oliva from comment #3)
> Even if your assumption that more than one diacritic in a word implied the
> word was in French, there are various other points that make your suggestion
> flawed.
> 
> First of all, the forward or backward accent ordering doesn't even apply to
> all French speakers.
> 
> Second, there are words with more than one diacritic in other languages.  I
> happen to be a native speaker of one such language.
> 
> Third, you don't need more than one diacritic in a word to trigger the
> problem.  Consider Cortes, Córtes, and Cortés; pelo, pêlo, pelô;
> Schlagerforderung, Schlagerförderung, Schlägerforderung, Schlägerförderung.
> 
> Fourth, Unicode and CLDR are the result of a lot of work by a lot of people
> who study lots of languages and local customs.  It would take a lot more
> than groundless speculation to conclude they're wrong.  (Which is not to say
> they're perfect in all regards, of course ;-)

I agree with Alex. We would need a very detailed analysis of why CLDR is wrong
to ignore their implementation and do something different.

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