UTF-8 collations on FreeBSD?

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Sun Dec 16 11:34:23 PST 2007


On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:41:24PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > AFAIK, no one is taking this task yet.
> > Speaking particulary about UTF-8, it will be better to have single sorting
> > table for whole UTF-8 rather then for particular language.
> 
> I don't know how that would work because the position of a character
> (the same character) in alphabets varies between languages.

I wasn't clear. I mean main table sorted by some default in accordance to 
Unicode ranges, i.e. Cyrillic, Greek, etc. and small per specific language 
table above it. It allows to not store full unicode sorting for each 
language.

BTW, I think the best place to discuss this matter is i18n at freebsd.org 
list.

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