Hi, recently, HSQLDB, the database used in OpenOffice.org, added the feature to sort textual data according to language/locale dependent requirements.
For instance, some languages require to sort upper case characters before lower case characters, some languages do it the other way round. This is only one example of the pretty large world of so-called collation [1]. To create reproducible test cases for those new implementations, we're searching for sample data in a wide variety of languages/locales. If you want to help out here, and are a native non-english speaker, we'd be happy if you could provide simple lists of words in your language, in the order you would expect them to be sorted. Those lists (an assembled version thereof) will become part of the HSQLDB [2] test suite, ensuring that sorting/collation works as expected. If you want to provide such a list, please send me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a mail with the word list attached. Please encode the list in UTF-8 [3]. Thanks & Ciao Frank [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collation [2] http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net [3] To create such a list in Calc, simply enter all your words - one per row - and File|Save it in "Text-CSV" format, using the encoding "Unicode (UTF-8) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
