Hi,
as I run into this problem and do not how to cope with it,
I would like to ask somebody who is workig with russian
just to test whether perl supports sorting of russian texts.
Torsten sent me a simple script which was working for him.
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
TIA,
Eugene
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> about one month ago there were posting about locale's usage under
> perl. I tried to use it for sorting russian, but it did not work for me.
> Is there any additional tricks beside setting LANG=ru_RU; export LANG? I
> used /usr/share/keytables/ru.map for inputing some russian text. Hope this
> corresponds to koi8 coding.
>
> Thanks forward,
> Eugene.
>
> On 20 Nov 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
>
> >
> > I tried it with the following little sorting program:
> >
> > use locale;
> >
> > my @ARRAY;
> > my $i;
> >
> > while(<>) {
> > push @ARRAY, $_;
> > }
> > for $i (sort @ARRAY) {
> > print $i;
> > }
> >
> > and it work perfectly (in my case treating รถ like o). At least perl
> > is aware of locales.
> >
> > Torsten
> >
