[Bug localedata/20664] Unexpected collation in en_US.UTF-8, different to ICU CLDR

Keld Simonsen keld@keldix.com
Tue Dec 20 16:00:00 GMT 2016


On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:10:56PM +0000, carlos at redhat dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20664
> 
> Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |WAITING
>    Last reconfirmed|                            |2016-10-03
>                  CC|                            |carlos at redhat dot com
>      Ever confirmed|0                           |1
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
> Going forward we want glibc to track CLDR more closely. Therefore if you can
> find a glibc version that exhibits meaningful difference between CLDR, then
> please file a report, like this one.
> 
> However, you have too many moving pieces for us to validate this, for example
> sort is not a good test case because it might itself not use glibc's collation
> tables for sorting.
> 
> Can you construct a test case with strcoll that exhibits this problem?

I do not think we should aim at following CLDR closely, but we should minimize
differences. I actually think we should get CLDR to follow us more closely:-)

Bestregards
keld



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