Re: [Tiki-devel] A Unicode-aware replacement for the natcasesort() function

Volker Wysk <post-hhF2Jplw28UoZk/[email protected]> Sun, 09 Jul 2023 05:38:29 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.cms.tiki.devel
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Am Sonntag, dem 09.07.2023 um 05:14 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> Am Samstag, dem 08.07.2023 um 22:31 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc Libs:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > That's odd: I played with it (intl extension available) and it seems to me
> > the langage param makes no difference.
> 
> I think most (all?) languages order accented characters with their non-
> accented counterparts. This applies to accents, which aren't part of that
> language, as well. The collator_asort function does it that way. That's what
> you're seeing.

There can be subtle other differences between languages. I think the
collator_asort function requires the language to be specified for a reason.

> 
> I wouldn't expect this to hold true for the "C" locale as well, but it seems
> like it is a synonym for "en_EN", here.

That should be "en_UK" or "en_US", I think.

> The real difference is between available and non-available intl extension.
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> > 
> > I even extended the test set:
> > $arr = array("BBB", "bbb", "ßb", "abb", "AAA", "äba", "xx100xx", "xx99xx",
> > '"abc"', '_abc', '.aba', 'ssabc', 'ssc', 'rat', 'toto');
> > 
> > and I always get the same sort wether $lang is de_DE, fr_FR or C:
> > Array            
> > (
> >     [4] => AAA
> >     [10] => .aba
> >     [5] => äba              
> >     [3] => abb   
> >     [8] => "abc"
> >     [9] => _abc
> >     [1] => bbb  
> >     [0] => BBB   
> >     [13] => rat
> >     [11] => ssabc
> >     [2] => ßb    
> >     [12] => ssc
> >     [14] => toto
> >     [7] => xx99xx
> >     [6] => xx100xx
> > )
> > 
> > So… I must be misunderstanding the point of the function :-(
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > J-M
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 3:54 PM Volker Wysk <post-hhF2Jplw28UoZk/[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > Here's the next, probably final, version of the mb_natcasesort()
> > > function.
> > > It should be placed somewhere in the Tiki libraries. I'm not sure where.
> > > 
> > > There's no mb_natsort() function, because natural languages don't order
> > > strings that way. See the comment at the head of the code.
> > > 
> > > See the attachment.
> > > 
> > > Volker
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