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Re: sort-lines including non ASCII
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Uwe Brauer |
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Re: sort-lines including non ASCII |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:13:20 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Unicode has nothing to do with this. The difference between אַ and Á
> is that the former is always 2 characters, while the latter is usually
> only one. That's why sort-lines produces what looks like correct
> results with Hebrew. To see the problem there, you need to sort אבא
> with אַבָא and אתבשא, for example. Or something similar.
Ok, well than there is a simple solution at hand, run iso-unaccentuate
over the lines, sort them, and run iso-accentuate again (these functions
are now in an obsolete package, which proves to be useful). I tried it
out is works nicely.
BTW why is Á considered as 1 but אַ as two characters.
Re: sort-lines including non ASCII, Uwe Brauer, 2016/07/07
Re: sort-lines including non ASCII, Teemu Likonen, 2016/07/07