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Re: Sorting on country names



On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:17:52AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> James A. Treacy:
> 
> > Since slices are handled in the last pass of wml, we can't use them in a
> > sort function. We'd have to put the countries in a perl hash. 
> 
> Can Perl be configured as to sort according to locale settings? The
> iso-8859-1 set unfortunately does not have the Swedish letters in order so
> that a direct string compare gives the correct order.
> 
The sorting should be done properly. This is one of those areas which I'd
hope one of the translators would look into as they probably have more
experience with locales than I do (zero experience).

Any takers?

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org


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