[haiku-development] Re: Incorrect collation

  • From: Rimas Kudelis <rq@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:22:14 +0200

Hello,

2011.12.07 11:17, Stephan Aßmus rašė:
> On 07.12.2011 08:42, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
>> I have noticed that both Tracker and Deskbar are using incorrect
>> collation when sorting: they seem to sort anything outside ASCII range
>> at the bottom of the list separately. I can see this in my locale
>> (Lithuanian) very prominently e.g. in Deskbar, because names of a few
>> applications, preferences, and the Fonts demo start with a non-ascii
>> character in my language. I also have a confirmation from Humdinger that
>> in German locale, collation is also bad.
>>
>> My question is: under which component should I file this bug? Should I
>> consider it being OS-wide, or is it just these two applications?
>
> The code for this is in Tracker (libtracker to be precise). Deskbar
> shares it. Filing under Tracker would be right for practical purposes.

Thanks Stephan! This is now Ticket #8192

>> Another bug: if I choose only my language (and don't choose country) in
>> Locale → Formatting, then start a Terminal and issue an `export`
>> command, I see that all LC_* variable carry the following value:
>> lt_(null).UTF-8. I assume the "_(null)" part does not really belong
>> there, does it? My question is again, should I file it under
>> Applications/Terminal or something else?
>
> I would file that one under Local Kit, if that component already
> exists, if not, filing under System would be about right. Terminal
> doesn't have anything to do with that.

And this is now Ticket #8193.

Regards,

Rimas

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