Re: If X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ ... example of where that's not true?
On 07/01/2013, Costello, Roger L. coste...@mitre.org wrote: Hi Folks, In the book, Unicode Demystified (p. xxii) it says: An English-speaking programmer might assume, for example, that given the three characters X, Y, and Z, that if X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ. This works for English, but fails for many languages. Would you give an example of where character 1 sorts before character 2 but character 1, character 3 does not sort before character 2, character 3? /Roger Look at the collation for Dzongkha or Tibetan: http://developer.mimer.com/charts/dzongkha.htm http://developer.mimer.com/charts/tibetan.htm
If X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ ... example of where that's not true?
Hi Folks, In the book, Unicode Demystified (p. xxii) it says: An English-speaking programmer might assume, for example, that given the three characters X, Y, and Z, that if X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ. This works for English, but fails for many languages. Would you give an example of where character 1 sorts before character 2 but character 1, character 3 does not sort before character 2, character 3? /Roger
Re: If X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ ... example of where that's not true?
There are many cases of such digraphs. Example from Slovak: c d h but cd h ch Cf http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/, searching for Slovak. Mark https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033 * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Costello, Roger L. coste...@mitre.orgwrote: Hi Folks, In the book, Unicode Demystified (p. xxii) it says: An English-speaking programmer might assume, for example, that given the three characters X, Y, and Z, that if X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ. This works for English, but fails for many languages. Would you give an example of where character 1 sorts before character 2 but character 1, character 3 does not sort before character 2, character 3? /Roger
Re: If X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ ... example of where that's not true?
Roger, one way to get an answer to your question is to do the following: open page 440 of Richard Gillam’s book from which you are citing and read the chapter /Contracting character sequences./ HTH, Charlie * Costello, Roger L. coste...@mitre.org [2013-01-06 22:56]: Hi Folks, In the book, Unicode Demystified (p. xxii) it says: An English-speaking programmer might assume, for example, that given the three characters X, Y, and Z, that if X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ. This works for English, but fails for many languages. Would you give an example of where character 1 sorts before character 2 but character 1, character 3 does not sort before character 2, character 3? /Roger
