From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 08:20:33 EST
Antoine Leca scripsit:
> John Cowan va escriure:
>
> > Pavel Adamek scripsit:
> >
> >>> From the viewpoint of sorting,
> >> the coding <H><COMBINING C BEFORE>
> >> would be much better than
> >> <C><COMBINING H AFTER>.
> >
> > For Czech, yes. For Spanish we want the latter.
>
> What for?
First of all, this is an extended joke.
The point of the joke is that Czech sorts "ch" as a single letter after
"h", so using a COMBINING C BEFORE would make this happen automatically,
provided the combining character sorted after all letters.
Spanish also sorts "ch" as a single letter, but after "c", so here we
want a COMBINING H AFTER.
Of course, this is really not the way to do language-sensitive collation.
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