Re: D07multibyte.ztst failure on HP-UX 11.11

[Paul Ackersviller <pda@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:48:32AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:26:43 +0000
> Paul Ackersviller <pda@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 0000000: 2a2a 2a20 312c 3220 2a2a 2a2a 0a21 2048  *** 1,2 ****.! H
> > 0000010: ce91 4820 48ce 9248 2048 ce93 4820 48ce  ..H H..H H..H H.
> >             ^            ^
> > 0000020: 9448 2048 ce95 480a 2020 4841 4820 4845  .H H..H.  HAH HE
> >           ^           ^
> > 0000030: 4820 4855 4820 48c3 8848 2048 c389 480a  H HUH H..H H..H.
> > 
> > 
> > 0000040: 2d2d 2d20 312c 3220 2d2d 2d2d 0a21 2048  --- 1,2 ----.! H
> > 0000050: ce95 4820 48ce 9448 2048 ce93 4820 48ce  ..H H..H H..H H.
> >             ^            ^
> > 0000060: 9248 2048 ce91 480a 2020 4841 4820 4845  .H H..H.  HAH HE
> >           ^           ^
> > 0000070: 4820 4855 4820 48c3 8848 2048 c389 480a  H HUH H..H H..H.
> 
> You missed a 94 and a 92 which I've marked: the problem is again that the
> sort order isn't quite as deterministic as one might hope.  It looks like
> something funny happened to the characters in your original post; this may
> or may not be related.  It's possible the problem is in case modification.

I don't recall how I did the original post, but it may have been a copy
and paste (sorry).  The xxd output is from a run on the original file.

> The desired answer is that (in the selected UTF-8 locale)
> 
>   print -oi HΕH HΔH HΓH HΒH HΑH
> 
> outputs
> 
>   HΑH HΒH HΓH HΔH HΕH
> 
> (the middle letters are all upper case Greek).  Does it work without the
> -i?

No, no difference on that machine.