From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T08:11:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever?

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> Levin Alexander wrote:
>> On 1/11/06, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> > 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/>
>
> Yes, I'm aware of that, but I'd rather have a default collation used

How can you have a default collation if there is no default culture.
Collating by character binary value (what ruby does) is as neutral a
collation as it can get. Else, people would be shouting 'favouritism'.


> that gets very close, than for Ruby not even try to sort extended
> characters.

YS.