Gupta, Rohit4 <rohit4 dot gupta at citigroup dot com> wrote: > We are using UNICODE for representing Japanese characters. > > Will the Japanese characters be sorted according to: > a) There order in the Japanese character set OR > b) Order of their listing in the UNICODE representation. OR > c) The result of the two approaches above be the same.
As a general rule, never rely on the order of code points in Unicode (or any other character encoding standard) to provide a correct sorting order. If it does, you may consider it an unexpected bonus. Find the sort order that is culturally most appropriate, and build a table to map this order to the Unicode code points. The Unicode Collation Algorithm may help you here. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
