matching base character

[Pádraig Brady]

Hi,

How does one compare characters using only primary weights?

For example I would like "a á â" to be equal according to the locale.
I think that strcoll will treat them as equal using primary weight,
but then iterate again to compare with secondary and tertiary weights.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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[Danilo Segan]

On Monday at 10:58, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> How does one compare characters using only primary weights?
>
> For example I would like "a á â" to be equal according to the locale.
> I think that strcoll will treat them as equal using primary weight,
> but then iterate again to compare with secondary and tertiary weights.

Perhaps write your own locale for that and set LC_COLLATE to it? On
GNU libc systems, you can have them locally installed (eg. in your
$HOME) as well using I18NPATH and LOCPATH environment variables.

Cheers,
Danilo

[William J Poser]

Another way of getting a non-standard sort order is to use
a sort utility that allows you to specify the sort order explicitly.
My own contribution is msort (http://billposer.org/Software/msort.html).

Bill Poser