Bug#968437: xindy-rules: Incorrect Norwegian sorting of č and š
Hi Bruno
Norbert from the TeX Live (and Debian TeX Team) here.
(please keep Cc)
here in Debian we got a bug report about using xindy with Norwegian and
Saami words:
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I ran into this problem when using dblatex and xindy to typeset a book,
> where the index ended up with the wrong sorting order. This is a
> Norwegian book with some North Saami words in the body and index. Every
> Saami word starting with č and š are incorrectly sorted as starting with
> a symbol, while they should be sorted with c and s, respectively.
The reported also provided a patch how to fix this, see below.
Could you please comment on whether this is valid or not? If yes, I
would also update the xindy rules in TeX Live.
Thanks a lot for your time
Norbert
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I tested a but further, and can confirm that this patch solve the
> problem:
>
> --- xindy-2.5.1.20160104.orig/make-rules/alphabets/norwegian/utf8.pl.in 2020-08-15 11:41:26.000000000 +0200
> +++ xindy-2.5.1.20160104/make-rules/alphabets/norwegian/utf8.pl.in 2020-08-15 11:46:27.976538044 +0200
> @@ -11,10 +11,9 @@
> [], # a with ogonek (polish)
> ['B', ['b','B']],
> [], # b with hook (hausa)
> -['C', ['c','C'],['ç','Ç']],
> +['C', ['c','C'],@u{['č','Č'],}['ç','Ç']],
> [], # ch (spanish/traditional)
> [], # cs (hungarian)
> - [], # c with caron (many)
> [], # c with acute (croatian, lower sorbian, polish)
> [], # c with circumflex (esperanto)
> [], # c with cedilla (albanian, kurdish, turkish)
> @@ -85,10 +84,9 @@
> [], # r with caron (czech, slovak/large, upper sorbian)
> [], # r with acute (lower sorbian)
> [], # r with cedilla/comma (latvian)
> -['S', ['s','S']],
> +['S', ['s','S'], @u{['š', 'Š']}],
> [], # sh (albanian)
> [], # sz (hungarian)
> - [], # s with caron (many)
> [], # s with acute (lower sorbian, polish)
> [], # s with circumflex (esperanto)
> [], # s with comma below (romanian)
>
> I had to wrap using @u{} as the caron characters are missing in
> ISO-8859-1 (aka latin1).
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