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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:46:43 -0400
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   Guido Milanese <gmilanese AT mclink DOT it>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Sort - locale: cygwin_nt-5.0
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At 06:13 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
>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.

<snip>

>In other words, unless someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant strcoll, you are stuck with non-locale sorts on cygwin. 


Don't you mean that newlib is the one that requires the patch?


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