> I have to say that it is surprisingly hard to get comprehensive,
> precisely worded standards for localised, language dependend string
> processing. The Unicode Standard goes a long way to provide
> definitions
> of categories to think in, but such stuff as what is applicable
> for a certain language such as character set, concepts of character
> case, case transformations, collation rules and the like appears to
> be spread across a lot of paper.

And when you do find rules written down for things like collating sequences,
you only need to pick up a dictionary, gazetteer, or phone book, to find
that no-one follows the rules anyway. I'm very sceptical of all "standards"
in this area.

Mike Kay


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