Re: Unicode::Collate, useful but useless

Le 12 avr. 07 à 22:34, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni a écrit :

> 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.

No, it just works around the 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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Éric Cholet