Random order of accented entries with texindy

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After sorting out my problem with imakeidx, I still have an issue with a wrong alphabetical order of accented Hungarian entries in the index. Updated MikTeX running lualatex-dev.exe with -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape "%wm" and makeindex.exe with "%tm.idx" -t "%tm.ilg" -o "%tm.ind".

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[hungarian]{babel}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex[program=texindy,options=-L hungarian -C utf8]
\begin{document}
\frenchspacing
Esztendők\index{óra} sora óta együtt\index{otthon} szoktam vacsorálni az István főherceg
vendéglőben az én igen t. barátommal, gróf\index{összes} Pongrácz Károly képviselővel és
tábornokkal. A hosszú téli estéken sokszor csak\index{enged} ketten ülünk a szokott
asztalnál, lenge\index{ősember} fátyol alatt, amely szivarjaink füstjéből szövődik, s ha
már kifogyott az aktuális beszélgetési anyag, szívesen\index{okozat} csúszunk kijjebb a
jelentől, az élményekben, színekben duzzadó múlt felé. Egymást ilyenkor szinte nem
is\index{éber} látjuk, hanem csak a múltat.
\printindex
\end{document}

I cannot fathom what éber is doing at o and why összes and ősember are separated. The correct order should be éber, enged; okozat, óra, otthon; ősember, összes. I've checked the manual (p. 19), and the order seems to be fine there, but I was told that the implementation is not in utf8.

@egreg Non vedo nessun cambiamento, i risultati sono gli stessi con texindy.exe — Kazi bácsi, Aug 31 '22 at 10:15
you get the faulty order if you use makeindex. With texindy it is correct. Run texindy -L hungarian -C utf8 your-file-name-here.idx on a command line and check if it actually works and if it reports problem. — Ulrike Fischer, Aug 31 '22 at 12:20
@UlrikeFischer I got an error that Perl is not installed on my PC, trying now to fix that... — Kazi bácsi, Sep 04 '22 at 13:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '22 at 10:16

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If you run lualatex-dev -shell-escape on your document, you get (without running any auxiliary program)

Whether the collation order is good or not is a problem of Xindy.

I tried to convert the produced .idx file into Latin-2 and run texindy with the -C latin2 option, and convert back the .ind file to UTF-8, but the result is exactly the same.

Note that makeindex will definitely go wrong.

answered Aug 31 '22 at 10:16

egreg

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Ok, it started to work, but strangely enough if I execute it from TeXnicCenter with the aforementioned settings, the .idx file is correctly produced, yet the .ind is an empty one. So I have to manually run texindy.exe with the same settings and I get the correct results. Do you have any ideas why it may happen? – Kazi bácsi Dec 03 '22 at 22:39

Random order of accented entries with texindy

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