Re: [icu-design] ICU API: Collator variableTop -> maxVariable

[Markus S. <mar...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Mark Davis ☕ <ma...@ma...> wrote:

> Note: getVariableTop() might still be somewhat useful even if we deprecate
>> setVariableTop(): One could query it and use it together with the current
>> CollationElementIterator.
>> Should we not deprecate getVariableTop()?
>>
>
> It would probably be better to be able to query the top and bottom of
> each reorder code group (And we need this anyway to do a good job with the
> Alphabetic Index; right now it has to use a hack for that.
>

Where/why does AlphabeticIndex need to know the primary-weight ranges of
reorder groups?

markus