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

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Thomas Munro
<thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 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

Same result on a CentOS box.  I think the OP should probably write to
bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org.

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Thomas Munro
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