[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

--- Comment #10 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #9)
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:35:11PM +0000, carlos at redhat dot com wrote:
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17750
> > 
> > --- Comment #7 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
> > (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #6)
> > > Fixing this will change the sort order of existing data, which is quite
> > > risky.  Is it really worth it?
> > 
> > For the long term support of locales it must change. Unless we get more
> > maintainers my plan is to conintue to push that we match CLDR, UNICODE and thus
> > exactly what libicu does and reduce the "surprise" for developers going from
> > java to C/C++ or vice-versa.
> 
> The fix is wrong, IMHO.

Thanks for stating that. In this case we'll need to discuss why it's wrong and
try to come to a consensus, including talking to CLDR about it. Thus this issue
is going to be more work, but not impossible.

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