Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> responded to Gupta, Rohit4 <rohit4 dot gupta at citigroup dot com>:
>> 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 > > Impossible: Hiragana and Katakana characters are already mapped in > Unicode. Don't expect any change in the assigned codepoints, whose > order matches the order found in the oridin Japanese satandard from > which they were derived. > > ... > >> b) Order of their listing in the UNICODE representation. OR > > Impossible also: charts are ordered cosnsistently by their code > points, and the canonical ordering and composition of Unicode strings > is also fixed now. Philippe, how on Earth did you come to the conclusion that Rohit4 was asking for the Japanese code points in Unicode to be rearranged? -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
