Comments on: The bashrc bash configuration files

By: Darrell Smith

Darrell Smith — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:49:57 +0000

Thanks. I’ll just have to use Python or PHP. James Tauber, Weston Ruter and Open Scriptures are working on tokenizing various manuscripts using python so I’ll just follow along.

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By: Simos Xenitellis

Simos Xenitellis — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:48:30 +0000

@Darrell:

I believe you are trying to sort strings that start with, for example α, ᾳ ,ᾅ, and you notice that these words are not grouped together under «α».

Unfortunately, there is no support yet in glibc for ancient Greek.

2883 # GREC
2884 #
2885 # accent aigu/tonos/acute accent
2886 # trma/dialytica/diaeresis
2887 # dialytika tonos
2888 #

Reference: http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git/tree/HEAD:/localedata/locales

No support in glibc means that all those basic command line scripts like ‘sort’ do not recognise yet Ancient Greek.

I believe there is support for Ancient Greek collation in the CLDR locale database. Therefore, collation should work in OpenOffice.org (uses CLDR), or you could write a script in, let’s say, Python, using the Python ICU bindings (see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyICU/). More scripting languages should have ICU bindings.

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!

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By: Darrell Smith

Darrell Smith — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:32:24 +0000

I use Ubuntu and am seeking a way to use polytonic Greek in bash utilities such as sort and uniq. Right now the diacritics confuse the algorithms when I use the locale el_GR-utf8. Do any of y’all know of a way to get this working, perhaps by editing the locale? Has this been done already? Ζη Χριστος!

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By: Simos Xenitellis

Simos Xenitellis — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:50:47 +0000

Thanks for the feedback.
It appears that OS/X does not have the GNU ‘echo’ command which supports the command line option ‘-n’ (do not change line after echo-ing text).

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By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:41:12 +0000

Will this works for mac?

I tried on my OSX 10.5.6 but seems dosen’t work.

This is the message followed by “sudo make systeminstall”

sudo make systeminstall
Password:
-n Copying config files to /usr/share/bashrc…
done.
-n Copying bashrc_config to /usr/bin…
done.

You can now use bashrc_config
as root to populate the /etc/skel directory
so that each new user will have the config files,
or
as any user to have your own copy of the
bashrc configuration files in your home directory.

Q: Did you put the dot files in /etc/skel? A: No, use bashrc_config.

—–

Where I have done wrong?

BTW: It works great on my Ubuntu box, I’m loving it.
But your mail system treated my email address as spam. It seems doesn’t like emails contains the word “spam”, in which case a true spam won’t put spam in.

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