On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Aitor Santamarķa Merino wrote: > Yes, but as I mentioned, the problem is that, how do we get collating > tables, etc for other countries than US and Germany? We could rely on > user's efforts to create those tables, but this can be quite laborious
Probably best to have a look at the locale tables in Linux. If one can make an automatic conversion from there it would go a long way (probably not 100% MS compatible but is that desirable for collation algorithms? -- they've probably changed themselves too). On Linux we have in /usr/share/i18n/locales a file called iso14651_1 which has the Unicode collating table (you can search the internet for iso 14651). That on its own would go a long way (good enough for English, German, Dutch, Italian -- Spanish has some exceptions with ch and ll, Lithuanian has y between i and k). Then some individual country/language combinations do a few modifications on that. e.g. a fragment of bg_BG: LC_COLLATE % We have made the following changes to the basic collation scheme in % the file iso14651_t1: % 1. The Cyrillic script is first in the order. % 2. The non-Bulgarian Cyrillic letters are sorted according to % their transliteration with Bulgarian Cyrillic letters. copy "iso14651_t1" reorder-after <9> <CYR-A> <CYR-BE> <CYR-VE> <CYR-GHE> [...] It's still a lot of work but it's not that the information itself isn't there. Bart ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
