UTF-8 Sorting

[Wolfgang Zenker]

Hi,

* Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at ze.tum.de> [140312 10:31]:
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> I've a problem with FreeBSD, UTF-8 and Sorting.
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> 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.

AFAIR this is not just a question of changing the collate files.
Have a look at https://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation for
a project to fix that problem (stalled, unfortunately).

Wolfgang