Re: [dict-beta] Index.c and dictfmt.c don't agree on locale specific sorting

[Aleksey C. <vl...@gm...>]

Diego Nehab <die...@ya...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> While creating a dictionary for the portuguese language, I noticed that the
> index sorting performed by dictfmt.c invokes the "sort" utility, while the
> binary search performed by index.c uses it's own comparison function to order
> two words.
>
> It turns out they don't agree (under non C locales), which means the binary
> search fails for words that are indeed in the index.
>
> I guess the cleanest way to solve this is to make sure both modules use the
> same comparison function, and since index.c has it's reasons to use it's own,
> the easiest would be to avoid the use of the "sort" utility and perform index
> sorting by hand in dictfmt.c. 
>
> I wrote a tiny stand-alone program that does the sorting, if you
> guys want it.  I understand that creating a new dictionary is not
> that common, but I wonder if anyone has ever reported the same
> problem.

If headwords from your dictionary contains non-ASCII symbols, both
`dictfmt' and `dictd' utilities must be run with non-C locale which is
set by --locale option.  In this case, sorting order in /bin/sort and
index.c should be the same.  If it is not, show a part of your
dictionary which is enough to see the described effect and tell what
system you are using.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.