I want to correctly sort words in a variety of languages, currently French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Arabic. I am using Perl 5.8.1 and unicode. I think I need Unicode::Collate to have *correct* sorting. Is this correct?
In addition to the problems listed by Sadahiro (most importantly that the UCA
is not "correct" for any particular language, it is just a baseline ordering
that is used for Unicode character data) I think it is worth pointing out that
trying to sort multilingual data is practically doomed to fail sooner or later
because many language-specific rules simply are contradictory.
Thank you both for your replies. What about sorting words in one particular
language, is Perl's sort() good enough? I'm wondering, since language isn't
one of sort()'s arguments.
-- Eric Cholet
