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Re: [Rafal Dabrowa <rafal@softsystem.com.pl>] libc/1163: glibc: wrong work of strcoll

Rafal Dabrowa <rafal@softsystem.com.pl> writes:

|> Really !? See results of this program run on AIX operating system:
|> 	$ echo "LANG=$LANG, LC_ALL=$LC_ALL"
|> 	LANG=en_US, LC_ALL=en_US
|> 	$ strcoll-test B b
|> 	strcoll( B, b ) = -1
|> 	$ strcoll-test a B
|> 	strcoll( a, B ) = 1
|> similar, but there is a big difference: "B" is LESS than "b" an "a" is
|> GREATHER than "B" (on Linux with glibc 2.1.1 is inversely). And I
|> guess, that on AIX is O.K. May be not ?

So the locales on AIX are defined differently.  Cope with it.  They are
completely implementation defined, except for a few fundamental
properties.

From /usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE on Linux:

<a>	<A>;<NONE>;<SMALL>;IGNORE
<A>	<A>;<NONE>;<CAPITAL>;IGNORE
[...]
<b>	<B>;<NONE>;<SMALL>;IGNORE
<B>	<B>;<NONE>;<CAPITAL>;IGNORE

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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