Re: UCA: is there a xml version of allkeys.txt available

From: Mark Davis ☕ <mark_at_macchiato.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:09:47 -0800

We do allow changes to the DUCET in cases like that, but we first put them
into CLDR, then take them into DUCET.

http://unicode.org/collation/ducet-changes.html

Mark
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2011/11/17 "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp>

> Hello Marc, others,
>
>
> On 2011/11/18 2:11, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
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>> There are no planned changes to the Tamil ordering for Unicode 6.1.
>> However, everyone needs to keep in mind that the DUCET is primarily useful
>> for supplying a base ordering, and is rarely suitable for specific
>> languages without a language tailoring. For the language tailorings, you
>> need to look at DUCET *plus *CLDR.
>>
>
> I very much understand that I can't get French and German and Swedish sort
> order at the same time, to this makes a lot of sense for Latin.
>
> However, I assume that the main language written in Tamil script is the
> Tamil language. So I would very much assume that the base ordering for the
> Tamil script should be so that it works out of the box for the Tamil
> language, without any tailoring.
>
> If I got something wrong, please tell me.
>
> Regards, Martin.
>
> The language tailorings are at
>> http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/**trunk/common/collation/<http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/collation/>(also beta for CLDR
>> v21). So for Tamil it is
>> http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/**trunk/common/collation/ta.xml<http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/collation/ta.xml>
>>
>> BTW, there is a chart for the next DUCET at
>> http://www.unicode.org/charts-**6.1.0beta/collation/<http://www.unicode.org/charts-6.1.0beta/collation/>
>>
>> See also:
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>> http://unicode.org/collation/
>> http://unicode.org/faq/**collation.html<http://unicode.org/faq/collation.html>
>> http://unicode.org/collation/**ducet-changes.html<http://unicode.org/collation/ducet-changes.html>
>> http://unicode.org/collation/**ducet-criteria.html<http://unicode.org/collation/ducet-criteria.html>
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>> 2011/11/17 கா. சேது | කා. සේතු | K. Sethu<skhome_at_gmail.com>
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>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Mark Davis ☕<mark_at_macchiato.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> With Unicode 6.1.0, the DUCET is being changes so that the CLDR root no
>>>> longer needs a tailoring, so once that is releases it should be what you
>>>> want. A beta version is at
>>>> http://unicode.org/Public/UCA/**6.1.0/CollationAuxiliary.zip<http://unicode.org/Public/UCA/6.1.0/CollationAuxiliary.zip>
>>>> (It will be changed before release, so don't use it in production.)
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>
>>> Where can we get to see the changes planned? Because as is, the
>>> collation order in it for Tamil letters require a tailoring.
>>>
>>> ~Sethu
>>>
>>>
>>
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