From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 11:37:12 EST
Gupta, Rohit4 <rohit4 dot gupta at citigroup dot com> wrote:
> We are using UNICODE for representing Japanese characters.
>
> Will the Japanese characters be sorted according to:
> a) There order in the Japanese character set OR
> b) Order of their listing in the UNICODE representation. OR
> c) The result of the two approaches above be the same.
As a general rule, never rely on the order of code points in Unicode (or
any other character encoding standard) to provide a correct sorting
order. If it does, you may consider it an unexpected bonus.
Find the sort order that is culturally most appropriate, and build a
table to map this order to the Unicode code points. The Unicode
Collation Algorithm may help you here.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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