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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 7 16:39:22 +0000 2007 ------- Thanks a lot for you comments, Eike. I guess my age is showing. Back in the days before unicode (when this project was started) all we had were 255 codes some of which, of course, were reserved. I guess I never came to grips with unicode and still use the old-fashioned terminology. In my own defense when I feed this weird symbols into a hex editor, it does give me a numberic value for the character in question. As I said, the actual shape of the symbol that appears is of no interest to me, I only wish to use the code (the one that comes up in a hex editor) for sorting purposes. Ok, let's say I want to sort using the ISO-8859-15 encoding. I have a string that looks like this (I don't know if I can reproduce the encoding) ÔÔ24!ÔÔ24!ie& and would have the following codes in hex: d4 d4 32 34 21 d4 d4 32 34 21 69 65 26 If I used a UTF8 encoding then things would look a bit different ��24!��24!ie& and the codes would come out as: 00 00 32 34 21 00 00 32 34 21 69 65 26, that is all the codes above 7f (hex) come out as 00. Fine, if I can sort, relative to an encoding, then there is no ambiguity about what actual code I want. I hope this is clearer. Regarding the summary, the collation is not only for Khoe but for the thousands of languages with no written tradition which may be worked on at some point. A code based sort based on pure code wrt a given character encoding would have many other applications as well. I would suggest changing the summary to something like "General code-based collations" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
