Comment 2 for bug 40144
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote Re: Languages sorted weirdly | #2 |
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Copying from my comment on bug 186979:
"The languages are sorted by their ISO-639 language code (i.e. the first bit of $LANG). nb < ne < nl < nn (Norsk bokmål, Nepali, Nederlands, Norsk nynorsk).
I acknowledge that it is not perfect, but I'm not convinced that your proposal is fully-specified, and it's exactly this woolliness that has held me back from doing it that way in the past. See bug 39299. The short answer is that there is no sort order that makes sense to speakers of all languages, even if we as English speakers have an intuition that says that it makes sense to sort similar-looking Latin letters together. The current behaviour is a compromise."