Re: Chinese sorting algorithms

Mike FABIAN <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.m17n
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"Thomas Brophy" <[email protected]> さんは書きました:

> I've had a look around Mike Fabian's suse-cjk pages, but I didn't find
> what i was looking for.
>
> Do we support (openSuse/SLEx 11 ->) sorting by pinyin, stroke count or Bopomofo?
>
> From my investigations, it would appear not and that the only sorting
> algorithm we provide is based on a character's codepoint. Can anyone
> confirm?

Yes, that’s right, the current sorting information of the CJK locales in
glibc is only based on the codepoint.

One could add other locales with different sorting information like
ja_JP.UTF-8@strokecount, I have seen something like that on other *nix
systems.

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