Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:41:24 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: "Andrey Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 collations on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <9bbcef730712161041l17728167jbb6f43a8d78bdf76@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071216180827.GA79300@nagual.pp.ru> References: <fk3ldl$ght$1@ger.gmane.org> <20071216180827.GA79300@nagual.pp.ru>
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On 16/12/2007, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote: > Multibyte support works, excepting to collation which defaults to > single byte order. Collation is what I most need. > AFAIK, no one is taking this task yet. > Speaking particulary about UTF-8, it will be better to have single sorting > table for whole UTF-8 rather then for particular language. I don't know how that would work because the position of a character (the same character) in alphabets varies between languages. Has anyone looked at possibly importing IBM's ICU, or parts of it? See http://www.icu-project.org/. Its license is non-restrictive (http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/license.html) and it covers probably everything and more than anyone needs?
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