blob: 268db5fd867a8715fe0e14ac7fd1329c394bd2ab (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
|
This tool, which only works on Linux, uses your system's locale data to
generate a collator partition for Tangara. This partition is uses to sort
database information (album names, etc.) in a way that makes sense to humans.
Because this script isn't portable, `Generic.LC_COLLATE` is included as a
pregenerated collator partition that should work well for most people's
music libraries.
## Partition format
The collator partition has 3MiB reserved for it in the partition table, which
is enough to hold the compiled collation data for ISO14651 character sorting,
plus a small amount of free space.
The first 8 bytes of the partition are reserved for a partition name; usually
the name of the locale that the collation data was compiled for, or 'Generic'
for ISO14651 data.
Following the 8 byte name, is a complete LC_COLLATE file, as generate by GNU
libc's `localedef` utility. Debian's version 2.37 of this utility is known to
work.
FIXME: We should vendor this version of the tool, so that our format remains
stable across glibc changes.
|
