Unfortunately following the ordinal value sorts the characters in a very rare way that no one knows how to use. It is an official order, but at that point is sort of defeats the purpose because they don't sort their characters that way in lists.
Japanese is way weird that way. Thanks for all of the comments. I find myself pretty stumped on this one. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com>wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 17:31 +0900, James Hancock wrote: > > How does ordering() order Japanese Unicode text? > > I do not know about japanese unicode, but ordering in Indian languages > for instance just follows the ordinal value of the character. So if > japanese unicode gives the first number to the first character - then > fine. Otherwise you have to write your own customised ordering. We have > to do that in Tamil for example, where one or two characters are out of > order in the unicode table. > -- > regards > KG > http://lawgon.livejournal.com > Coimbatore LUG rox > http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
