> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roozbeh Pournader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:58 AM
> To: Linux i18n
> Subject: Sorting and combining diacritical marks
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>
> A quick look at ISO 14651 tables
> http://www.iso.ch/ittf/ISO14651_2000_TABLE1.htm, yields that there's a
> U+0308 (COMBINING DIAERESIS) is in the table. But it is
> excluded in the
> "iso14651_t1" file in glibc. Does it mean that the programmer should
> normalize the strings before the sorting, or the umlaut will
> be ignored?
I just took a quick look at iso14651_t1. It seems to be extremely
old, and very limited. Not at all like the "2000" table, which
1) covers all of Unicode 2.1, and 2) does handle combining diacritics.
I guess Keld might know the details as to why the "t1" table has
not been updated.
Kind regards
/kent k
> BTW, what is the source for glibc's "iso14651_t1"?
>
> --roozbeh
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