I'm just an ignorant lurker, but different foreign languages have different rules. I don't think a single scheme will work even for all European languages, let alone Chinese (about which I know nothing) or Thai (about which I know less). This was discussed in the context of MySQL sorting Hungarian, and the response was that Hungarian has two distinct collating sequences.
Regards, Jerry Schwartz The Infoshop by Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 www.the-infoshop.com www.giiexpress.com www.etudes-marche.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Naz Gassiep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:23 AM > To: php-i18n@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-I18N] Foreign language sorting > > I am looking for a method to sort an array of strings, however the > strings are UTF8 and contain latin and non-latin characters. Is there a > method to sort a string such that letters such as e with an acute are > grouped with e without an acute, or even for strings that are made up > entirely of Thai or Cyrillic characters? > I really hope I don't have to roll my own sorting algorithm. > Thanks, > - Naz. > > -- > PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
