On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Dr. Werner Fink <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 07:34:01PM +0100, ольга крыжановская wrote: >> Glenn, as context, see http://www.unicode.org/faq/collation.html and >> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/ (Unicode Technical Standard #10: >> Unicode Collation Algorithm). >> >> I think, because the libc locale modules do implement the collation >> sorting, the question is, do the UTF-8 locales implement the Unicode >> standard collation algorithm? >> This might be a question for Dr. Fink. > > Sorting is locale based, that is if an encoding has all used characters > for a locale the results should be the same for all encodings even for > multi byte character encodings.
Simple question: Assuming the UTF-8 locales all implement the same Unicode version (hypothetically!), are the collation orders always the same for different platforms implementing the ja_JP.UTF-8 locale? If this is the case then we can call that portable (with limitations). Irek _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
