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| author | Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> | 2015-11-02 11:22:51 -0500 |
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| committer | Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> | 2015-11-02 11:22:51 -0500 |
| commit | a9cdc4a23c9ba93095cb6595972cbe2fde450e2c (patch) | |
| tree | 41b6f3cadecc73f2fc7e7299eb06b260d4f53abc /doc/lispref/strings.texi | |
| parent | 5401bb8645f955b6fde8c0a5e5c8cf5ec1cab626 (diff) | |
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Document behavior of collation on Cygwin
* test/automated/fns-tests.el (fns-tests-collate-sort): Mark as
expected failure on Cygwin.
* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Text Comparison): Document that
punctuation and whitespace are not ignored for sorting on Cygwin.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/strings.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/strings.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index 143de82d9ad..f8685d9312c 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ determined by the lexicographic order of the characters contained in relations between these characters. Usually, it is defined by the @var{locale} environment Emacs is running with. -For example, punctuation and whitespace characters might be considered -less significant for @ref{Sorting,,sorting}. +For example, punctuation and whitespace characters might be ignored +for sorting (@pxref{Sequence Functions}): @example @group @@ -594,6 +594,9 @@ less significant for @ref{Sorting,,sorting}. @end group @end example +This behavior is system-dependent; punctuation and whitespace are +never ignored on Cygwin, regardless of locale. + The optional argument @var{locale}, a string, overrides the setting of your current locale identifier for collation. The value is system dependent; a @var{locale} @code{"en_US.UTF-8"} is applicable on POSIX |