When comparing any code against the reference implementation for
it is important to use equal strings of *bidi classes*. For demo purposes
the C/C++ version uses a 'pseudo-alphabet' with some pretty arbitrary
assignments of ASCII letters to bidi classes.
Some examples:
A-F = Arabic letter
G-Z = Other RTL letter
a-z = LTR letter
1-5 = European number
6-9 = Arabic number
and special class assignments for punctuation characters.
The C/C++ and Java references were compared only on the level of
character class -> final ordering
but we never formally compared the pseudo alphabets that are used.
Therefore there may be differences there and just running pseudo-alphabet
test cases verbatim is unlikely to produce the correct results.
E.g. in case 7 the number 123,456 will appear as mixed European/Arabic
number, which is probably NOT the intent of the test. (BTW: using 123,455
gives the ordering shown in all the other test cases).
The pseudo-alphabet used in the C/C++ sources is documented in the
literal string variable szExplain.
Other than A-Z being RTL I'm not sure about the full definition of the
pseudo-alphabet used in the tests cases published by Mark Leisher.
A./
At 10:12 AM 12/6/99 -0800, Mark Leisher wrote:
>
> Jony> I have compared the results with IE5. See
> Jony> http://www.qsm.co.il/Hebrew/HebrewTest/testsrc.htm
>
> Jony> Tests 7, 22, 23, 24 differ with the reference implementation. I
> Jony> don't understand test 7.
>
> Jony> Test 14 has a difference around the /.
>
>Ok. I added a column for IE5. My copy of IE5 shows differences with 7, 13,
>14, 22, 23, and 24. Interesting stuff.
>
> http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ucdata.html
>
>P.S. I'm still trying to determine the ICU results.
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