Re: xsl:sort with msxml english language, danish characters, weird results
2004-10-25 08:50:42
Michael Kay wrote:
The UCA is written as if there is a single correct
answer, but there isn't.
The UCA doesn't define a particular collation sequence for any
languages, rather it defines the requirements for how collation
mechanisms should allow you to define the collation rules for a given
language and script. The Unicode standard is very clear that collation
is highly variable and that there is no single answer for any language
or script. [Even for a single language you might have different
collation rules for glossaries and indexes, for example.]
Java's built-in RuleBasedCollator class implements a collation mechanism
that, as far as I know, conforms to the Unicode UCA in that it provides
the functionality needed (althought it may not fully address issues of
how to handle composed and uncomposed characters--I'm not sure about the
details there). The IBM ICU package provides a more complete
implementation of the UCA and the ICU4J package provides an alternative
set of built-in language-specific collators that are more complete and
accurate than those shipped with Java.
Cheers,
E.
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