Re: [OT?] Modifying (Unicode) sorting of languages using diacritics in MS Word and MS SQL Server

From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 21:15:23 EST

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    Michael (michka) Kaplan a écrit :

    >From: "Patrick Andries" <Patrick.Andries@xcential.com>
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    >> I have the same question for MS SQL Server 2000...
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    >Similar answer to the one Chris gave for Word, though with a slightly older
    >version of the Windows sort tables....
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    >> Finally, I would like to know if it is possible for a user to add
    >>an additional language to the ones appearing in the Windows regional and
    >>language options, so as to assign to it, for instance, some keyboard
    >>layouts.
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    >This is not currently possible. But the user can certainly create a new
    >keyboard (now with an easy GUI tool) and the system will handle all that is
    >typed with it.
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    [PA] Yes, the GUI tool is very nice. So easy to use in theory that I
    don't understand why it is only available in English (i.e. one does not
    need to be a techie and "thus" know English to be able or want to use
    this tool).

    >>P.-S. : Do Word, SQL Server 2000 and the Regional and Language options
    >>window support all Unicode 4.0 associated languages as far as proper
    >>sorting and addition of keyboards are concerned ?
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    >It is hard to know what you mean here -- are you asking for when every
    >single character in Unicode 4.0 will be in some keyboard and some
    >linguistically appropriate sort, all built into Windows? Or did you have a
    >more practical (and reasonable) target in mind?
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    [PA] Let me be reasonable as you kindly suggest, how about proper French
    Canadian (CAN/CSA Z243.4.1 standard (which you most probably know) and
    ISO/IEC 14651 with the delta corresponding to the latter) or Khmer sorting ?

    P. A.



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