UTF-8 Sorting

[Gerhard Schmidt]

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Hi,

I've a problem with FreeBSD, UTF-8 and Sorting.

e.g. there is a file with the following content

Meier
Müller
Öger
Ofner
Schmidt

I have set my Terminal to ISO-8859-1 Encoding and call sort on this
file I get the following output.

Meier
Müller
Ofner
Öger
Schmidt

Which is correctly sorted.

When i change my Terminal to UTF-8 encoding and convert the file to
UTF-8 and call sort again I get the following output.

Meier
Müller
Ofner
Schmidt
Öger

which is wrong.

The problem seams to be that the LC_COLLATE file in the de_DE.UTF-8
locale is linked to ../la_LN.US-ASCII/LC_COLLATE (as are all
LC_COLLATE Files in any UTF-8 locale).

After some Research i found a Mail from Kuba Lida in December 2008
(yeah that's 5 Years ago) stating the same Problem and got no response.

Why isn't there a UTF-8 LC_COLLATE file for any language. Kuba Lida
believed there was a Problem with multibyte collate files in FreeBSD.
Is this true and are there plans to fix this problem.

The same test under Linux works without problem.

Regards
	Estartu

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