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Re: Odd differences in locale sorting

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Subject: Re: Odd differences in locale sorting
From: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 23:20:43 +0200
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	"David Starner" <dstarner98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is there any reason for the differences? Can they - should they - be
> changed?

I don't think it's worth the trouble.  Collation will always be
confusing if you're mixing two or more languages.  (Well, for us
Germans, collation is confusing in itself because there are two ways
of dealing with umlauts in common use. ;-)
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