From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T08:32:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever?

Yohanes Santoso wrote:

>"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com> writes:
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>>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:
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>>>>x = ["z", "a", "�", "o", "b"]
>>>>puts x.sort.inspect
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>>>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.
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>>><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
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>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'.
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That would be making the default behaviour one that is wrong for any 
culture. That's not solving the problem, that's avoiding it.

David Vallner