On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I was a little worried that it was too much to hope for that all libc
>> vendors on earth would ship a strxfrm() implementation that was actually
>> consistent with strcoll(), and here we are.
>
> Indeed. To try to put some scope on the problem, I made an idiot little
> program that just generates some random UTF8 strings and sees whether
> strcoll and strxfrm sort them alike. Attached are that program, a even
> more idiot little shell script that runs it over all available UTF8
> locales, and the results on my RHEL6 box. While de_DE seems to be the
> worst-broken locale, it's far from the only one.
>
> Please try this on as many platforms as you can get hold of ...
Failed on Debian 8.2, but only for de_DE.utf8. libc 2.19-18+deb8u1. Attached.
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