[Bug 427568] Re: Please sort programs in a locale-friendly way

[Michael Terry]

I don't think using strcoll fixed anything.  Again, look at the
Accessories department and note the D's.  You'll see Déjà Dup at the
end, when it should be earlier (in English locale -- and I want to say
all locales?).

(While looking to see which version I have to re-confirm this bug, I
noted that Help->About gives a different version than apt does.  About
says 0.2.2, apt says 0.3.2.)

strcoll isn't a full Unicode collation algorithm (UCA) [1], AFAIK.  I'm
not really sure what possibilities there are for LC_COLLATE or how it
works.  But I do know that Python doesn't have a native implementation
of UCA (surprisingly).

To fix this, you'll want to use a library that does implement it, like
python-pyicu.

[1] http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/

** Changed in: software-store (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Released => Confirmed

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