Re: [icu-support] Collation in ICU 3.4 with ALTERNATE SHIFTED - strange results

[weiv <wei...@gm...>]

Hi Scott,

are you referring to strings "2004" "2010" "23" or code points? Do  
you have numeric collation turned on or off? Could you provide the  
code snippet?

Thank you very much for reporting this.

Regards,
v.

On Dec 13, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Scott Mebust wrote:

>
> Is there a problem with 3.4 and ALTERNATE SHIFTED?  I'm sorting  
> with an en_US locale, a STRENGTH of 4, and ALTERNATE SHIFTED and  
> I'm getting some strange results.  I'm sorting a list of three  
> strings:
>
>   2004
>   2010
>   23
>
> and ICU 3.4 is returning the keys:
>
>   25 7E 25 82 01 06 01 06 01 26 25 7A 25 7A 26 00
>   25 7E 25 7C 01 06 01 06 01 26 25 7A 26 25 7A 00
>   25 7E 25 80 01 06 01 06 01 27 00
>
> respectively and this results in an order of:
>
>   2010
>   23
>   2004
>
> Without ALTERNATE SHIFTED, I get the following keys:
>
>   25 7E 25 7A 25 7A 25 82 01 08 01 08 01 26 00
>   25 7E 25 7A 25 7C 25 7A 01 08 01 08 01 26 00
>   25 7E 25 80 01 06 01 06 01 24 00
>
> and this results in the order:
>
>   2004
>   2010
>   23
>
> I checked against the demo page here:
>
>   http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?_=en_US&d_=en&x=col
>
> with and without the additional custom rule [alternate shifted] but  
> this is returning different keys, leading me to think that this  
> demo page might be using 3.6.
>
> Can anyone offer a quick sanity check here?  It would be much  
> appreciated.
>
> Scott
>
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