From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T22:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: sorting Array of accentuated Strings

On Dec 8, 1:09 am, unbewusst.s...@weltanschauung.com.invalid (Une
Bévue) wrote:
> cruiserdan <d...@zeraweb.com> wrote:
>
> > You might be interested in using some of the emerging Unicode support
> > in Ruby. Ruby 2 will have it built-in and there are several libraries
> > out there, although I don't have any experience using them.
>
> right, thanks, i've only wrote a workaround before getting Ruby 2...
> --
> Une Bévue

Hmmm. Maybe I'm mistaken, but this seems to have nothing to do with
unicode. An ascii char is always going to be less than a utf-8 char,
since utf-8 is a superset of ascii.

Fenêtre <=> Être ->

F (\x46) <=> Ê (\xc3\x8a) ->

-1

To get the right behavior I think you have to translate the utf-8
characters to ascii. You can try something like:

require 'iconv'
class String
  def translit
    Iconv.iconv('ascii//translit', 'utf-8', self)[0]
  end
end
a.sort { | i, j | i.translit <=> j.translit }

But some people have had strange effects from #iconv (e.g., a recent
thread [1]).

Regards,
Jordan

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/9fbb85fa49dd700f/26311c1a3844267d#26311c1a3844267d