IcuCollation is the name of the mediawiki class. The actual underlying code is from a software project called Icu (or more specificly icu4c). Which version used depends on which version mediawiki is compiled against. Version 1.8 is really really old (which makes me think you got the wrong software project maybe?). The latest stable release is 50, but 51 is going to be released soon. We use version 4.2 of icu library which implements CLDR 1.7 and Unicode 5.1, which is a tad older but not horribly. I believe people want to update icu to a newer version for better chinese collation. I imagine eventually things would be updated to a version that has the script reordering. Otoh icu library updates have a high cost, so maybe not unless there is a better benefit than reordering the script. (note script reordering is already an option. The only difference in newest uca is that reordering the script is the default instead of an option).
Tl; dr: no. Its compatible with a version of uca. But uca is not a fixed standard and changes. -bawolff On 2013-03-02 8:31 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > I googled for IcuCollation and found this on their website ... Starting in > release 1.8, the ICU Collation Service is updated to be fully compliant to > the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) ( > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ ) and conforms to ISO 14651. > > My question, will we use a version of IcuCollation that is later than 1.8. > Asking if IcuCollation supports the latest version of the UCA is probably > too much to ask for... It would give us alphabetic characters after the > characters of a default script. > > Thanks, > GerardM > > > On 27 February 2013 23:50, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just yesterday I managed to get https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/** > > r/#/c/49776/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/49776/> merged. Based > > heavily on Tim's work on the IcuCollation, it allows one to *finally* get > > articles to be correctly sorted on category pages for 67 languages based > in > > latin, greek and cyrillic alphabets. > > > > I also created https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=45443< > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45443>to track the process > of getting this deployed to Wikimedia wikis. The > > process is already underway for uk.wiki and pl.wiki; if anybody technical > > wishes to get it on their wiki first, please create a sub-bug and start a > > community discussion/vote - I can provide a testwiki in your language :) > > > > Eventually, I'd like this to be deployed on all wikis in those 67 > > languages. I'll start poking people about this (and will drop a mail to > > -ambassadors) once wmf11 is deployed and the change goes live on a few > > wikis. > > > > -- > > Matma Rex > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l< > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
