Re: Sort Order

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 03:41:11 EST

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    Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> responded to
    Gupta, Rohit4 <rohit4 dot gupta at citigroup dot com>:

    >> 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
    >
    > Impossible: Hiragana and Katakana characters are already mapped in
    > Unicode. Don't expect any change in the assigned codepoints, whose
    > order matches the order found in the oridin Japanese satandard from
    > which they were derived.
    >
    > ...
    >
    >> b) Order of their listing in the UNICODE representation. OR
    >
    > Impossible also: charts are ordered cosnsistently by their code
    > points, and the canonical ordering and composition of Unicode strings
    > is also fixed now.

    Philippe, how on Earth did you come to the conclusion that Rohit4 was
    asking for the Japanese code points in Unicode to be rearranged?

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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