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Re: Sort - locale: cygwin_nt-5.0
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.
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>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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