[Toybox] sort -V

[enh]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:04 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On 12/19/18 1:41 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > it turns out that we have a few users of `sort -V`. i'd always assumed
> > this meant "use the GNU strverscmp(3) function as your comparator" but
> > no, it's slightly different...
>
> By the way, do any of the regex engines support utf8 yet?

libc you mean? i'm not sure anyone knows, because anyone serious is
already using Java or PCRE or RE2 :-)

> (I'm aware that china despises utf8 because all their chars expand to 4 bytes
> and they use a 2 byte encoding instead, but if utf8 gets supported we can do an
> internal conversion, and it gets us the _rest_ of the planet...)

China's not your problem... https://www.unicode.org/faq/myanmar.html
is your problem.

> Rob