On 7/8/2017 12:28 PM, Richard
Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 09:04:39 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:But some handling of combining mark (and also the new emoji sequences) would equally constitute "basic" knowledge, with the Unicode algorithms like sorting,Which major applications actually use the Unicode Collation Algorithm for sorting, that is for the key comparison part? ICU doesn't. Richard. That's an interesting question, but not necessarily a reason not to use it as a basis for teaching about locale-dependendent sorting. Most students wouldn't continue designing or implementing such an algorithm, but many may write software that uses (or should) use something that's functionally equivalent to UCA (even if different in details). A./ |
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