Re: Unicode::Collate, useful but useless

Éric Cholet wrote:

> % perl -MUnicode::Collate -e 'Unicode::Collate->new'
> Unicode::Collate: Can't locate Unicode/Collate/allkeys.txt in @INC
>
> Okay, I know, it wants a Unicode Collation Element Table, it's well  
> documented in the pod where to get such a table.
> But:
> - it wants this file to be in $foo/Unicode/Collate/allkeys.txt  
> where $foo is in @INC, which is very inconvenient, and even  
> impossible to achieve in some hosted environments.

Did you try upgrading the module with the CPAN version? The  
distribution there includes the data files, so it should fix this  
problem.

> - It seems the default table (DUCET) isn't bundled with Perl  
> because of its size (1.2 Mb). Maybe "1.2Mb is too big" could be  
> reconsidered w.r.t today's environment. At any rate does it really  
> make sense that Unicode::Collate is in core but unusable as is?

Given that Encode alone is 11 MB, the size argument does not really  
stand anymore :-)

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