Re: [sinhala-technical] Sinhala Collation information

[Pravin S <pra...@gm...>]

Hi Harshula,
Thanks for quick reply :)

2008/8/27 Harshula <har...@gm...>:
> Hi Pravin,
>
> You can get the Sinhala tailoring rules from:
> http://www.nongnu.org/sinhala/doc/howto/sinhala-howto.html#DEV-DATABASES
>
> Here's a patch that has been gathering dust, it's the old way of doing
> collation rules:
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/sinhala/patches/si_LK-glibc-2.7.patch?root=sinhala&view=log
> Go ahead and use the above as a reference.

              < \\u0D82 < \\u0D83 < \\u0D9A < \\u0D9B < \\u0D9C < \\u0D9D"
              "< \\u0D9E < \\u0D9F < \\u0DA0 < \\u0DA1 < \\u0DA2 < \\u0DA3"
is this says order like this??
u0D82
< \\u0D83
 < \\u0D9A
 < \\u0D9B
 < \\u0D9C
 < \\u0D9D"
 "< \\u0D9E
< \\u0D9F
< \\u0DA0
 < \\u0DA1
< \\u0DA2
< \\u0DA3"


actually i am expecting plane file like
http://unicode.org/charts/collation/chart_Sinhala.html

or i will be very happy if you tell me correction in this file :)

i think unicode has done 90% job, please correct me

>
> BTW, why has glibc moved the collation from the locale file to a common
> collation file? I'm not familiar with the common collation file, so I'm
> quite curious.
There is good advantage doing this.
Since this common file is included in almost all the locale file, so
if you select locale say si_LK, other script data will get sort
automatically since this file has collation data for all other
languages.
else if you add collation info in direct si_LK locale file you will
get only sinhala data sorted and then you will need to add Latin
sorting also in the same file
unnecessarily.


Thanks & Regards,
----------------------
Pravin Satpute
Software Engineer,
Internationalization,
Redhat


>
> cya,
> #
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:03 +0530, Pravin S wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> how are you? contacting after long time :)
>>
>> as you know Sinhala sorting order is not yet defined in glibc, thats
>> why we cant get sinhala menus, files sorted.
>>
>> check /usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1_common in you machine
>>
>> I have included sorting support for devanagari, gujarati and many other scripts
>>
>>
>> I am planning to do same for sinhala to
>> http://unicode.org/charts/collation/chart_Sinhala.html
>> Unicode has given above collation order for Sinhala
>> if it is correct as per language requirement
>> and I would like to implement it or if someone interested i will be
>> happy to help him :)
>>
>> if it is not correct let me know, corrected sequence, so I can proceed with it
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> ----------------------
>> Pravin Satpute
>> Software Engineer,
>> Internationalization,
>> Redhat
>
>