On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:49:06AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Tom Ball wrote: > > Does anyone know where the reasoning behind the strange collating > > behavior in the en_US.UTF-8 locale? No matter how I pre-sort the IP > > list, en_US.UTF-8 collating still wants to put the "128.*" IP address > > between two "12.*" ones. > > It's because in the english language punctuation is not relevant to > alphabetic sorting. The sorting ignores the '.' characters, so that the > result is the same as a sort in the "C" locale if you removed the '.'s > from the strings. It is relevant, but only if the strings without the punctuation are the same. Jakub
