[icu-support] Collation question

[Rajeev J S. <raj...@di...>]

Hi,

I have a question regarding collator implementation for ml_IN locale in ICU 
2.6

I need to reassign the positions of u200d and u200c as shown below:




    CollationElements {
        Version { "1.0" }
        Sequence { "[normalization on]&[top]"
          "<\u200d<\u200c"
 ....


However, this always results in the following error while building:



ICU_DATA=../data/out/build 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../common:../i18n:../tools/toolutil:../layout:../layoutex:../extra/ustdio:../tools/ctestfw:../data/out:../data:../stubdata/:
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH  ../tools/genrb/genrb -k -q -p icudt26l -s ../data/locales 
-d ../data/out/build ml_IN.txt
../data/locales/ml_IN.txt:108: parse error. Stopped parsing with 
U_INVALID_FORMAT_ERROR
couldn't parse the file ml_IN.txt. Error:U_INVALID_FORMAT_ERROR
make[1]: *** [../data/out/build/icudt26l_ml_IN.res] Error 3
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kane/font_maker/icu/icu/source/data'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 2




Trying the rule in Locale Explorer works. Perhaps it is because 200c/200d are 
already assigned as equal to [last tertiary ignorable] ? Is there any way to 
reassign weights of these two codepoints in my locale ?

Also, how do I move sections around ? for e.g., I would like to include in the 
ml_IN locale, the following order:

malayalam, tamil, latin, devanagari ....

So, how can I move say the Malayalam section to just before Tamil and so on ? 
Or do I have to copy the collation rules from the appropriate files into my 
ml_IN locale ?


Rajeev J Sebastian