Re: BUG #14112: sorting v and w is broken with et_EE locate

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Thomas Munro
>> <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> That does look odd.
>>
>> What happens if you replace the dot in each string with a single 'x'
>> character, Georg? Does the sort order look correct to you then?
>
> I ask because I suspect that this might be the same strcoll() bug I
> describe here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320356
>
> (In particular, see my remarks on Austria and Germany.)

No change here.  This system has locales-all ("GNU C Library:
Precompiled locale data") package version 2.19-18+deb8u4 (and same
libc6).

munro@yoga:~/junk$ LC_COLLATE=et_EE.utf8 sort < input
a1.ee
vvbwjbln7.ee
wwvl8.ee
wxxezi6lkaq7eoi.ee
vyz.ee
munro@yoga:~/junk$ LC_COLLATE=et_EE.utf8 sort < input2
a1xee
vvbwjbln7xee
wwvl8xee
wxxezi6lkaq7eoixee
vyzxee

--
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com