Re: Collating order

[Ole Laursen]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> It is not that I don't want to do anything about it.  It is that I
> can't do anything about it.  The locale is set by the user.  I have no
> control over it.  (Sometimes the locale is set by the distro vendor
> without the user's knowledge or control.  That is bad.)

FWIW, glib 2.7 has g_utf8_collate_key_for_filenames now:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2005-June/msg00013.html

It produces a collation key that can be used for sorting with strcmp()
which takes dots and numbers into account. It is used for sorting file
names in nthe GTK+ file chooser widget and in Nautilus, the file
manager for GNOME.

The source code with a largish comment on how it works is at the
bottom here:

  http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/glib/gunicollate.c?rev=1.17&view=markup

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/