Re: numeric ordering

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 15:24:10 EDT


Viranga asked:

> Questions
> ---------
>
> 1. Is there another document/algorithm/table that does provide
> guidelines for sorting numbers within strings? Something
> that deals with different scripts?

ISO/IEC 14651 "International String Ordering" includes
an informative annex on this topic. In particular, see
C.2 Handling of numeral substrings in collation. The specific
case of sorting multiple-part section numbering is not
addressed in detail, but many similar kinds of problems
are.

--Ken



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