On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > > For what it's worth, their choice wasn't entirely "insane" ie. it did have an > element of rationality: that decomposed forms are a little bit simpler to > sort. No they are *not*. In many languages, 'ä' does *not* sort like 'a' at all, and if you think it does, you'll sort at least Finnish and Swedish totally wrong (åäö are real letters, and they sort at the *end* of the alphabet, they have nothing what-so-ever to do with the letters 'a' or 'o'). The fact that in *some* languages the decomposed forms sort as the base letter is immaterial. It's only true in some cases. So no, sort order is not it. To sort right, you need to use the a real Unicode sort (and the decomposed form is *not* going to help you one bit, quite the reverse). It may be that a case compare is easier in NFD (ie you basically only do the case-compare on the base letter). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
