On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:05:45 -0700, Marc Moskowitz
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I'm trying to sort transliterations of Chinese words by standard pinyin
sorting (syllable alphabetically, then by tone, followed by the next
syllable). Is there a collation in either English or Chinese that deals
correctly with this? If not, is there some way of creating a
user-defined sort order? I know that I can create a sortable form for
each word that sorts correctly by codepoint, but I would rather do
something more efficient if possible.
Marc Moskowitz
Interactive Factory
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The collation named "http://marklogic.com/collation/zh"; ought to
do what you want. Pinyin is the default ordering for (mainland)
Chinese. There is no way of defining your own collation. In
theory you could write your own ordering function that operated
on the strings, but it would be fairly painful and slow I imagine.
//Mary
Mary Holstege
Lead Engineer
Mark Logic Corporation
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