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- Subject: Re: setlocal categories?
- From: Klaus Ripke <paul-lua@...>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:47:51 +0100
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 18:08, PA wrote:
> os.setlocale( "UTF-8", "collate" )
On Thursday 17 February 2005 12:37, Klaus Ripke wrote:
> > os.setlocale( "UTF-8", "collate" )
> this kind of works,
oops -- sorry, of course this does NOT work.
UTF-8 is a ctype, not a collation :)
But you can have a "collate" of "de_phonebook" with UTF-8
and yes, it's dead slow.
c.f.
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/charts/collation/ ,
http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/ and
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/tr10-11.html#Default_Unicode_Collation_Element_Table
