Re: Confusion about Collation

From: Clark Cox (clarkcox3@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 08:25:33 CST

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And, as always happens when you finally break down and publicly post a
question, the answer just jumps out at you. In a "duh" momend, I
re-read <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/#S2.1.2>

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:04:16 -0500, Clark Cox <clarkcox3@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking over the allkeys.txt file, as well as the conformance
> tests for the UCA, and one thing has me a bit confused.
>
> In CollationTest_NON_IGNORABLE.txt, the sequence (U+0410, U+0062)
> collates before (U+0430 U+0306 U+0334). However, if the latter is
> normalized to NFD, shouldn't it be normalized to (U+0430 U+0334
> U+0306), as U+0334 (i.e. 1) has a lower combining class than U+0306
> (i.e. 230)? However, if that's the case, then the key it generates
> collates *before* (U+0410, U+0062).
>
> Obviously, I am missing something; probably something staring me in
> the face, but I can't, for the life of me figure it out.
>
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