Re: r4943 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . patches/localedata
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:07:46PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:33:19PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Yes similar problems have already been reported. This change has been
> > done as a C locale should not have a collation order.
>
> Why not? Codepoint order collation is perfectly reasonable for a C
> locale. Lots of people use LC_COLLATE=C when all they want is for
> things like [a-z] to work reasonably.
>
Because it is supposed to replace the C locale, so to follow POSIX
rules like the C locale. I am personally not convinced that we should go
that way, but people who have pushed for this locale (some of them
Cc:ed) have made clear in bugs #522776 and #609306 that it should handle
collation like a C locale.
Maybe they could follow-up this mail with their arguments.
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