You can do proper Persian sorting using either glibc (available in all GNU/Linux distributions), or ICU (available from http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/). There is no other software known to the community that does Persian Unicode software properly without using either of those.
roozbeh On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:15, Peter Cruickshank wrote: > Hello > > I'm a new subscriber to the list, so please forgive me if I'm asking an old > question. I did look at the archives for last few months though and didn't > see any discussion of this issue: > > The subject kind of explains it all - I'm part of a team adapting an open > source MySql based content management system (Back-End - > www.back-end,org) to work with Persian content. A big stumbling block is > getting UTF-8 collation working. We don't want to be reinventing wheels > here - so it would be great to hear if someone has already built a UTF-8 > collation file and is willing to share it? > > Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks > > Peter _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing