On 30 Nov 2009, at 1:58am, Igor Tandetnik wrote: > Note that Unicode collation is not as simple as you might think. Did you know > that in Estonian, 'y' sorts between 'i' and 'j'? Or that in German phonebook > sort, 'oe' sorts as if it were a single letter between 'o' and 'p'? > Basically, your simplistic approach would only work for plain unaccented > Latin letters and English collation rules.
I spent a lot of time annoyed about this, and ended up deciding that the only way to do Unicode sorting correctly is to store the language (or collation method) with each piece of Unicode text. Of course, this still gives you the problem of working out which order two pieces of text go in if they are in two different languages. Perhaps you also need a 'default language' marker for the entire column. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
