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Re: Internationalized CLASS attributes
Chris Lilley writes:
> On Oct 17, 8:37pm, Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote:
>
> > I would rather that you did not normalize, but made a case-independent,
> > or case-and-accent-independent comparison,
>
> Sorry, could you eplain how a case-independent comparison differs from case
> folding (or normalization) ?
My understanding of normalization is that you convert a string to
a normalized representation, by for example converting all upper case
characters to lower case. When doing case-independent comparison
you compare the two strings by finding weights for each
character in the strings and then comparing the weights.
You may say that the weights are a kind of normalization, and
implementations may actually convert the strings into weight strings
for more efficient comparison.
The weights are then on one level equal for all accented variants
of a base letter, or on another level equal for all letters with the
same base letterr and a certain accent regardless of case.
>
> > for example using the functions and tables of the forthcoming ISO
> > sorting standard ISO/IEC 14651.
>
> Thanks for the reference. Are these tables available online?
You can get the latest version (at CD registration stage) in
http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/65S14651.doc
There are tables in there, but maybe not so eaisly usable.
A set of POSIX locales are available in ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection/
Keld