perl-unicode

RE: Unicode::Collate question

2003-11-30 19:30:06


-----Original Message-----
From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi [mailto:jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi]
...
the UCA is not "correct" for any particular language ...

Not by design, no, but it fine for English and Italian, for example.

I think it is worth pointing out that trying to sort multilingual 
data is practically doomed to fail sooner or later
because many language-specific rules simply are contradictory.


Just to clarify - you mean that it is impossible to make everyone happy
with one sorting sequence. This is true. Sorting multilingual data
isn't 'doomed' in any other way.

=Ed

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