On 2-5-2010 3:59, Philipp Gesang wrote:
1. In sort-lan.lua, line 101 should read «['r'] = "r"», and line 144
«['r'] = 26, -- r».
i patched the file
2. Although I read the disclaimer about said file being “preliminary and
incomplete” -- is there some rationale behind the range of integers for
each language mapping? The mapping for English goes from 1 to 51,
interleaving 2 integers for each letter (which is odd because it should
start from index 3 with “a”, shouldn't it?), while the Czech one goes
from 1 to 40 without skipping, Finnish and Austrian from 1 to 58.
some old (ruby) code was used etc etc
What about mapping them onto a larger but common scale that would
alleviate multilingual sorting so that the alphabetical representation
of the phoneme /a/ maps to the same value over different languages?†
E.g.
["a"] = 3, -- in a Latin mapping,
["α"] = 3, -- in Greek mapping,
["а"] = 3, -- in a Russian mapping.
hm, interesting ... feel free to reshuffle and provide patches
† I know this is impractical for many writing systems and even within
the set of Latin or Greek based alphabets it largely depends on a given
purpose how much precision you need in sorting.
indeed but we can have multiple variants and are not bound to specific
conventions
Hans
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