From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T06:59:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever?

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>Levin Alexander wrote:
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>>On 1/11/06, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>I''d like to be able to do this and have it just work:
>>>
>>>x = ["z", "a", "�", "o", "b"]
>>>puts x.sort.inspect
>>>      
>>>
>>Correct sorting of text is a quite tricky problem, because the correct
>>sort order will probably be language or application specific.
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>>>Maybe I'm missing something (and if I am, please tell me), but even
>>>when using jcode, the multi-byte character always is last.
>>>      
>>>
>><http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/>
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>Yes, I'm aware of that, but I'd rather have a default collation used
>that gets very close, than for Ruby not even try to sort extended
>characters.
>
>Indeed, this is how xpath/xslt 2.0 works; there's the required default
>collation you cite above (which works fine for my use cases), and one
>can plug-in alternate collations if needed.
>
>Bruce
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Hmm. Would a change to String#<=> to respect that document when $KCODE 
== 'u' break too much code?

David Vallner