perl-unicode

Re: Unicode::Collate, useful but useless

2007-04-12 13:34:49
Éric Cholet wrote:

% perl -MUnicode::Collate -e 'Unicode::Collate->new'
Unicode::Collate: Can't locate Unicode/Collate/allkeys.txt in @INC

Okay, I know, it wants a Unicode Collation Element Table, it's well documented in the pod where to get such a table.
But:
- it wants this file to be in $foo/Unicode/Collate/allkeys.txt where $foo is in @INC, which is very inconvenient, and even impossible to achieve in some hosted environments.

Did you try upgrading the module with the CPAN version? The distribution there includes the data files, so it should fix this problem.

- It seems the default table (DUCET) isn't bundled with Perl because of its size (1.2 Mb). Maybe "1.2Mb is too big" could be reconsidered w.r.t today's environment. At any rate does it really make sense that Unicode::Collate is in core but unusable as is?

Given that Encode alone is 11 MB, the size argument does not really stand anymore :-)

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