Re: [IndexDB] Collation Algorithm?

P.S.  Please use "[IndexedDB]" as that's the convention we've been using so
far and many people have filters set up for this.

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rogers@gmail.com>wrote:

> One of the things I noticed that seems to be missing from the IndexDB
> specification is the collation algorithm used for sorting the index
> keys.
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> There are lots of collation differences between databases, if left
> unspecified I'm afraid this would negatively affect interoperability
> between IndexDB implementations.
>
> CouchDB has a good collation specification for rich keys (any JSON
> type) and defers to the Unicode Collation Algorithm once it hits
> string comparisons. This might be a good starting point.
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/View_collation#Collation_Specification
>
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/
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> -Mikeal
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