Hi all, I found out that sorting a table in Yast does not work the same way in all UIs. The Qt UI respects the current locale, while ncurses and Gtk always use standard C (ASCII) sorting. That makes a trouble when sorting texts with accents. E.g. ["Z", "Ž", "á", "Á", "A", "a"] is in Qt sorted as users would expect ["a", "A", "á", "Á", "Z", "Ž"] (unless the locale is C/POSIX), while the others always display ["A", "Z", "a", "Á", "á", "Ž"], which is IMHO a bug. The problem is additionally complicated by the locale setting, i.e. it depends on invocation, ssh or su/kdesu keeps the current locale, but "su -" or logging in a text console sets POSIX locale (which results in C sorting). On the other hand locale sorting does not work correctly with numbers, in the repository module I pad priority number with spaces so in C sorting values " 90" and "100" are sorted correctly. However, this does not work when locale sorting is active, the values are in order like this: " 99", " 90", "105", "100", which looks strange. So C sorting would be good here. So how to solve all these problems? - I think table sorting should respect the current locale (so there is a bug in Gtk/ncurses) - The numeric sorting problem can be solved by padding numbers with zeroes instead of spaces e.g. "090" instead of " 90" - it does not look nice but I haven't found any better solution. Any idea? (I tried some tricks with UTF-8 non-breakable space but that didn't help.) Any comments? (BTW I foud out this problem when debugging bnc#752768, I could not reproduce it in 12.1, but I could in 12.2M3.) -- Ladislav Slezák Appliance department / YaST Developer Lihovarská 1060/12 190 00 Prague 9 / Czech Republic tel: +420 284 028 960 lslezak@suse.com SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org