jonathon wrote:
I thought that the standards listed some languages as being excluded from that set of rules.
You can tailor the Unicode Collation Algorithm to fit particular languages. See http://unicode.org/charts/collation/ for some collations for particular languages. Note that the OpenOffice.org Calc sorting allows the user to select a language.
That really depends upon the language.
Of course. The Unicode collation algorithm provides a default sort which can then be tailored for particular languages, as is done within OpenOffice.org.
For !Kung,and related languages, diacritic marks are primary elements. IOW, if diacritic marks are mishandled, the result is an unsorted list.
In some European languages also particular letters with diacritics are recognized as alphabetic letters and are properly sorted accordingly. The sort Unicode Sort Algorithm is tailored for those languages. The idea is that there French has rules for sorting Latin characters used in French and Romanian has different rules for sorting Latin characters used in Romanian and so forth, but no language has rules for all characters in Unicode. Accordingly for most languages some tailoring must be done.
For African languages it should be the first level of collation, not fourth level.
I don't think collating according to Unicode order would work in any language.
Which means that it should be easy to setup a sequence to use for sorting !Kung and related languages. [I'm using !Kung as an example, because I can spell it correctly.The other person is starting their project with other Namibian languages that are slightly easier to speak and spell. Not that !Kung is that hard to speak.]
It probably would be easy. However, someone needs to do the work. Jim Allan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
