ICU covers collation and lots more. Open source. http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation
In article <byapr05mb55912ac45349653069b4736599...@byapr05mb5591.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> you wrote: > The collating sequence for a code page is neither right nor wrong, it just > is. The appropriate way to sort is to take locale into account. That implies > that two sorts of the same data in the same code page on the same machine may > be different. > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of > Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 9:09 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Bigotry against mixed case was Re: Upper case for ISPF and SDSF > On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:05:00 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > > > >A more important reason was that addition of mixed case in either > >ISO/ASCII changed a compare from a simple Compare Logical Character > >into a subroutine. While this was always true if a true dictionary or > >phone book sort is wanted, this would make it true for virtually all > >compares. Should A = a? If not should the sequence be A,a,B,b ....? > > > IBM 7030 did something like the latter, but neither is right; it's worse. > An example: > 1234 > camel > Camel > CAMEL > canary > Canary > CANARY > cat > Cat > CAT > ... Note that "CAMEL" comes after "Camel" but before "canary". So you can't > simply say either that A<a or A>a. > But would you argue that computers should scorn English lexical conventions? > -- gil -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
