From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 08:17:41 CDT
Christopher Fynn scripsit:
> OTOH applications that generate collated lists should ideally provide a
> straightforward means of applying special tailoring tables.
"Should ideally" are the operative words; in most cases, we're lucky
if we get default collating behavior rather than UTF-16 or UTF-8/UTF-32
binary sorting. That's why it's important what the content of the
default collation is, and that it get things right for at least a
large subset of users.
--
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
--Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
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