Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ĸ:
> It is used to denote the sound written as [q] in the International Phonetic Alphabet (the voiceless uvular plosive). For collation purposes, it is therefore considered to be a type of 'q', rather than a type of 'k', and should sort near 'q'.
At least in fi_FI.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8, ĸ appears next to k when sorted:
% for l in j k l p q r ĸ; do echo "$l"; done | sort | xargs
j k ĸ l p q r
Both Unicode[1] and ISO-14651[2] place ĸ after q and before r.
[1]: http://unicode.org/charts/collation/chart_Latin.html
[2]: http://www.iso.org/ittf/ISO14651_2006_TABLE1_En.txt
The locales seem to base the collation on /usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1_common, which places ĸ after k. Perhaps the file is based on an outdated version of the ISO-14651 table and needs to be updated.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: locales 2.7.9-5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/lib/icecc/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/home/username/.local/bin:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: langpack-locales
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
From https:/
Quoting http://
> It is used to denote the sound written as [q] in the International Phonetic
Alphabet (the voiceless uvular plosive). For collation purposes, it is therefore
considered to be a type of 'q', rather than a type of 'k', and should sort near 'q'.
At least in fi_FI.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8, ĸ appears next to k when sorted:
% for l in j k l p q r ĸ; do echo "$l"; done | sort | xargs
j k ĸ l p q r
Both Unicode[1] and ISO-14651[2] place ĸ after q and before r.
[1]: http://
[2]: http://
The locales seem to base the collation on
/usr/share/
file is based on an outdated version of the ISO-14651 table and needs to be updated.