Or does it follow some rule like: "The order of consecutive Nonspacing_Marks does not matter" ?

For Thai, that's correct. The Thai collation tailoring forces normalization.

See: http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/collation/th.xml

(You'll need to "view source" if you look at that in Safari.)

Deborah Goldsmith
Apple Inc.
golds...@apple.com

On Apr 15, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:


On 16 Apr 2009, at 06:01, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

Yes, it's correct behavior. localizedCompare: compares logically, not visually.

If you did a diacritic-insensitive compare, they would compare equal, because MAI EK is primary ignorable.

But then: why does localizedCompare: think "KO KHAI, SARA II, MAI EK" = "KO KHAI, MAI EK, SARA II" ?

Or does it follow some rule like: "The order of consecutive Nonspacing_Marks does not matter" ?

Kind regards

Gerriet


Deborah Goldsmith
Apple Inc.
golds...@apple.com

On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:

This is the logical order of the Thai word for "low":
THAI CHARACTER TO TAO, THAI CHARACTER MAI EK, THAI CHARACTER SARA AM

and this is the order usually used in writing (bottom to top):
THAI CHARACTER TO TAO, THAI CHARACTER SARA AM, THAI CHARACTER MAI EK.

Both strings look (at least in 10.5.6) identical - with the MAI EK correctly on top of SARA AM.

But localizedCompare: thinks that they are not (i.e. does not return NSOrderedSame).
Is this correct?

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