Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake) To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Guido Milanese Cc: Igor Pechtchanski , cygwin@cygwin.com, guido.milanese@unicatt.it Subject: Re: Sort - locale: cygwin_nt-5.0 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:13:19 +0000 Message-Id: <051720052213.27490.428A6C7F0009183300006B6222007507840A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> X-Authenticated-Sender: ZXJpY2JsYWtlQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 > There's very little support for LOCALE settings in Cygwin. Some > applications will switch the language of the help messages, etc, to the > extent gettext() supports it. I don't believe sort has locale-specific > collate support -- the coreutils maintainer might be a better person to > answer that. Sort requires a working strcoll to do locale-dependent sorts. But newlib (cygwin's library) provides only a strcoll that is HARD-CODED to the "POSIX" ("C") locale. Gettext allows localized help messages (LC_MESSAGES generally works on programs compiled with gettext, coreutils included), but does nothing for the other aspects of locales (such as LC_COLLATE). In other words, unless someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant strcoll, you are stuck with non-locale sorts on cygwin. Sorry. -- Eric Blake cygwin coreutils maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/