Re: test-org-table/sort-lines: Failing test on macOS

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> This one is not consistent with what I see on Linux with glibc.

Yeah, I noticed. :)

> Perhaps you do not have en_US locale generated
>
> locale -a | grep en_US
> en_US.utf8

$ locale -a | grep en_US
en_US.US-ASCII
en_US.UTF-8
en_US
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-1

> Sanity test passed for sort. You may try the same set of pairs with 
> `string-collate-lessp'.

(string-collate-lessp "a" "b" "C" t) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "b" "a" "C" t) ; nil
(string-collate-lessp "A" "B" "C" t) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "B" "A" "C" t) ; nil
(string-collate-lessp "a" "b" "C" t) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "b" "a" "C" t) ; nil
(string-collate-lessp "A" "B" "C" t) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "B" "A" "C" t) ; nil

(string-collate-lessp "a" "b" "C" nil) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "b" "a" "C" nil) ; nil
(string-collate-lessp "A" "B" "C" nil) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "B" "A" "C" nil) ; nil
(string-collate-lessp "a" "b" "C" nil) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "b" "a" "C" nil) ; nil
(string-collate-lessp "A" "B" "C" nil) ; t
(string-collate-lessp "B" "A" "C" nil) ; nil

> I am curious if "POSIX" locale works similar to "C" and "C.UTF-8" in 
> your case (string-collate-lessp "a" "B" "POSIX" nil).

(string-collate-lessp "a" "B" "POSIX" nil) ; nil

Rudy
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