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ICU covers collation and lots more. Open source.
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> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:05:00 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
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> >A more important r
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On Wed, 1 May 2019 04:47:02 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
> ...
>Another sequence (collation) problem which is also sometimes overlooked: one
>example - 'North' certainly comes before 'Northern'. This can be resolved by
>giving a space higher priority for this case.
>
This is sometimes appro
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>IBM 7030 did something like the latter, but neither is right; it's worse.
>... Note that "CAMEL" comes after "Camel" but before "canary". So you can't
>simply say either that Aa.
Clark Morris wrote:
>A more important reason was that addition of mixed case in either IS
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:05:00 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
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>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
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000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 08:30:34 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
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>>... 3279 and similar IBM 3270 display terminals? Those heavy toys have 3 blue
>>switches, o
