Bug 2019281 - glibc: Backport fix for swbz#28526 to provide consistent collation up to Unicode 14.0.0.
Summary: glibc: Backport fix for swbz#28526 to provide consistent collation up to Unic...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: glibc
Version: 9.0
Hardware: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: glibc team
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Reported: 2021-11-02 03:02 UTC by Carlos O'Donell
Modified: 2023-07-18 14:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-01-28 14:31:07 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-101457 0 None None None 2021-11-02 03:03:39 UTC
Sourceware 28526 0 P2 NEW Update ISO 14651 to provide weights for Unicode symbols from Unicode 9 and onwards. 2021-12-10 14:38:32 UTC

Description Carlos O'Donell 2021-11-02 03:02:08 UTC
RHEL9 glibc is updated to Unicode 13.0.0. Unicode 14.0.0 has just been released. However, collation in glibc follows ISO 14651, which although harmonized with Unicode, is out of date with the latest released Unicode standard (matches Unicode 9.0.0).

Upstream glibc bug 28526:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28526
should provide enough of a fix to ensure that modern Unicode code points have a weight and are sorted consistently in code point order even though we don't update to Unicode 14.0.0.

If bug 28526 is fixed before GA we should include it in the release and freeze collations at that point. We do not change collations after GA since this has impact on stored and sorted application data.

Comment 1 Carlos O'Donell 2022-01-28 14:31:07 UTC
As of today the upstream bug 28526 has not been fixed and so we are not going to include this in RHEL 9.0 GA. We do not change sorting weights after the release because this has impact on sorted data and on-disk layout of sorted data. I'm marking this CLOSED/WONTFIX for RHEL 9.


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