On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Antony Blakey<[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> Could Unicode normalisation affect the sorting of keys with option two? > > On a related issue: the locale certainly could e.g. it changes the collation > order of accented characters. >
Interesting point. I take this as a pretty clear reason for discarding UCA for member ordering. Normalization isn't affected by locale right? I haven't seen anything to suggest as such so I assume not. > Antony Blakey > ------------- > CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd > Ph: 0438 840 787 > > On the other side, you have the customer and/or user, and they tend to do > what we call "automating the pain." They say, "What is it we're doing now? > How would that look if we automated it?" Whereas, what the design process > should properly be is one of saying, "What are the goals we're trying to > accomplish and how can we get rid of all this task crap?" > -- Alan Cooper > > >
