Re: wrong strcoll() result with different UTF locale setting

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx>]

Markus Kuhn <mgk25@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Only in phone books. The more modern German sorting order used in
> dictionaries and most other applications treats ö like o, distinguished
> only in the second sorting level (just like accents are sorted in English
> as well). I'd rather see the ö=oe sorting order disappear. It is
> confusing, user unfriendly, and makes looking up words in sorted list more
> complicated. It has it's place in phone books and name lists only, because
> there used to be a lot of German surnames that sounded identical but have
> ö/oe, ü/ue, ä/ae as spelling alternatives (Moeller versus Möller, etc.).

I also used a German library catalogue that had Ö = OE and also I = J
and U = V, presumably with the sound practical justification that I
and J were the same letter in Classical Latin, as were U and V.

Edmund
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