2009/11/18 Przemysław Czerpak <[email protected]>: > The 1-st and most important is common sorting algorithm. > If you have three different languages and each of them uses > different national sorting rules then migrating to unicode > you will have to chose some sorting method used for all unicode > strings what means that for at least two languages you will not > be able to replicate exact national sorting conditions. If you > are creating database for phone book and exact national sorting > is a must then you cannot use any language which replaces strict > national sorting with some common for different languages universal > collation algorithm which are used for sorting unicode string and > if support for unicode is not optional then you have to change the > language to some more flexible one which do not force using Unicode.
Here's a quite detailed document on that matter: http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/ -- Ph. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
