Re: [Firebird-devel] Arabic Sort

[Iman B. <ibi...@ne...>]

   Hi;
   can you send me the links you found in Google? My mother language is 
persian and I don't know what "stem" does mean!

Peter Jacobi wrote:
> Hi Iman Biglari,
> 
> Iman Biglari <ibi...@ne...> wrote:
> 
>>   I don't think there should be any difference between sortings in 
>>phonebooks, listings, and so on, but I'll keep looking. 
> 
> 
> I didn't necessarily imply, that they should be different, but wanted to 
> say, that it may be more complicated than assigning a single number
> to every character.
> 
> Most references on Arabic collation that I found by a first
> use of Google, all say, that correct Arabic collation is terribly
> complicated and involves first extracting the "stem" of the word,
> whatever this means in this context.
> 
> 
>>About the code page,
>>you're right, but the order in the code page is not correct. 
> 
> 
> That is completely normal. No code page or ISO character set has in
> itself the correct order of characters.
> 
> 
>>PS: I can send you a sample database, with the correct order in an 
>>integer field if your mailbox accepts attachments. Does it help you?
> 
> 
> Your text list is perfectly O.K. It will be stuffed into a Python program 
> for generating the necessary tables.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Jacobi
> 
> 
> 
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