From: Ben Dougall (bend@freenet.co.uk)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 12:38:21 EDT
anyone? : uca and collation to ascertain various possible character
groupings / catagorisations that are specific to various specified
languages? to get some other matches, more than just an absolute match
or not absolute match?
am i on the right track there? or is there a better direction maybe?
i'm looking for a reasonably even coverage of the main languages.
just checking. thanks.
On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 11:03 pm, Ben Dougall wrote:
> would it be the uca / collation
> <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/> that will allow me to
> do this? :
>
> having specified which language is being used, compare one character
> to another and find out which various groupings they may or may not
> share. such as comparing in english, an 'F' and 'W' would match on
> case (and consonants even). case catagories i'm sure don't exist in
> some other languages, but then i'm sure there are many other types of
> catagorisations in other languages that english doesn't have.
>
> i'd like to have access to any kind of character catagories /
> groupings that maybe applicable to whichever language is initially
> specified.
>
> is it the uca that's what i need to look into for that type of thing?
>
>
> also i notice icu <http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/> has a lot of
> collation stuff. how does that compare to unicode's collation?, (if
> collation is even what i'm after, that is). how is icu different from
> unicode's collation?
>
> thanks.
>
>
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