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Re: Japanese/Chinese language question
- From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda at acm dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:00:24 +0900
- Subject: Re: Japanese/Chinese language question
- References: <20100121134055.GE2402@calimero.vinschen.de>
>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:40:55 +0100
>>> Corinna Vinschen said:
> When comparing strings linguistically (strcoll/wcscoll),
>
> - are Hiragana and Katakana forms of the same character to be
> treated as equal or as different?
They should be treated as different.
> - are half-width and full-width forms of the same CJK character
> treated as equal or as different?
Different, too.
It is difficult to implement the collation algorithm from
scratch. I recommend to use LCMapString to generate sort keys.
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Kazuhiro Fujieda
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