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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:04:49 -0400
To: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake), Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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 07:02 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
>> >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?
>
>Either place would work, but the philosophy of newlib is that it is for
>embedded systems, and my understanding is that Jeff does not want
>to add locale support to newlib any time soon.  A cygwin-local replacement
>for strcoll would not affect any other newlib targets.  But regardless of
>whether it is newlib or cygwin that is patched, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>!

I figured that was the case but thought I should ask for clarification. :-)

Thanks,


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