Re: CA: Hebrew and Arabic sort orders (fwd)

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From: Brian Tatro
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 05:49

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> Sender: dank@alumni.cco.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
> Subject: Re: CA: Hebrew and Arabic sort orders
>
> In bit.software.international you write:
> >There are specifications of Hebrew and Arabic sorting in POSIX
> >localedef format available in locales at dkuug.dk:i18n/locales
>
> Got them, and mirrored them to ftp.cco.caltech.edu:pub/dank/mirrors/dkuug.dk.
> It looks like most locales just refer to en_DK's sorting order.
>
> But how do you read the locale files?  Is there some software to read them
> and perform sorts?  Or do we have to translate these files by hand into C?
> It looks like the file nord.ps at this host talks about these issues,
> but I haven't been able to print it out yet.
>
> By the way, anyone know why the locale files are also in the main directory?
> - Dan Kegel
>

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Subject: Re: CA: Hebrew and Arabic sort orders (fwd)
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