Re: Unicode collation algorithm - interpretation]

2001-02-19 Thread Jim Melton
Mike, Thanks for your response. I find myself disappointed that there isn't more participation in this discussion (from others than you and I), but it will undoubtedly come ;^) At 05:05 PM 02/11/2001 + Sunday, J M Sykes wrote: >I think you misunderstand me. The "maximum level" I was refer

Re: Unicode collation algorithm - interpretation]

2001-02-11 Thread Mark Davis
D]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Fred Zemke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:42 Subject: Re: Unicode collation algorithm - interpretation] > Mike, Jim, > > I

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2001-02-11 Thread Tex Texin
Mike, Jim, I am confused by this thread so I will offer my perspective. The collation algorithm is small and can be written to work flexibly with different levels of sorting. It is easy to have a parameterized table format so that tables can have different levels. I find I need to have the abi

Re: Unicode collation algorithm - interpretation]

2001-02-11 Thread J M Sykes
Jim, Thanks for the reply, which Hugh had indeed alerted me to expect. See interpolations below. > I particularly want to respond to the statement that you made: > > >It has been suggested that SQL should instead identify > >both collation element table and maximum level. > > I believe that the

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2001-02-10 Thread J M Sykes
t; Cc: "Fred Zemke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 12:34 AM Subject: [Fwd: Unicode collation algorithm - interpretation] Mike, In a message that you sent to the Unicode list on

Unicode collation algorithm - interpretation

2001-02-08 Thread J M Sykes
In the proposal for better accommodating UCS in SQL, we assumed that a comparison performed according to UTR#10, "Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm", would require four parameters, viz. Two strings to be compared A collation element table A maximum level as