Thanks. I get it now. I meet with our language experts again on Monday. I'll ask them about submitting localization info to the CLDR.
Thanks again. -Ben On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bently Preece <preec...@umn.edu> wrote: > > What if there is no standard localization already? The case I'm > > specifically interested in is Ojibwe. > > > > this is standard? to sort a field with a specific locale, you have to > tell it the locale you want. if you use the ICU implementation you get > support for more locales, its just that simple. The JRE has less > available locales because its internationalization and localization > support lags behind ICU. > > On the other hand ICU keeps current with both the unicode standard and > locale data in CLDR (http://unicode.org/cldr), which is why it > supports more. > > I noticed there is no locale for your language in CLDR, not even under > development it appears (http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey). > > So if your language (Ojibwe) has special sort rules, I recommend > making the collation rules and using a custom collator as specified > here: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UnicodeCollation#Sorting_text_with_custom_rules > > for your "base collator" you just need to use "new Locale()" and your > rules will be a delta from that. > > Separately, if these sort rules are well-defined/standardized for this > language, and you get them working, you might want to then consider > contributing them to CLDR. >
