Foreign language sorting

[Naz Gassiep]

I am looking for a method to sort an array of strings, however the
strings are UTF8 and contain latin and non-latin characters. Is there a
method to sort a string such that letters such as e with an acute are
grouped with e without an acute, or even for strings that are made up
entirely of Thai or Cyrillic characters?
I really hope I don't have to roll my own sorting algorithm.
Thanks,
- Naz.

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[Jerry Schwartz-2]

I'm just an ignorant lurker, but different foreign languages have different
rules. I don't think a single scheme will work even for all European
languages, let alone Chinese (about which I know nothing) or Thai (about
which I know less). This was discussed in the context of MySQL sorting
Hungarian, and the response was that Hungarian has two distinct collating
sequences.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naz Gassiep [mailto:naz@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:23 AM
> To: php-i18n@...
> Subject: [PHP-I18N] Foreign language sorting
>
> I am looking for a method to sort an array of strings, however the
> strings are UTF8 and contain latin and non-latin characters. Is there a
> method to sort a string such that letters such as e with an acute are
> grouped with e without an acute, or even for strings that are made up
> entirely of Thai or Cyrillic characters?
> I really hope I don't have to roll my own sorting algorithm.
> Thanks,
> - Naz.
>
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[Tomas Kuliavas]

> I am looking for a method to sort an array of strings, however the
> strings are UTF8 and contain latin and non-latin characters. Is there a
> method to sort a string such that letters such as e with an acute are
> grouped with e without an acute, or even for strings that are made up
> entirely of Thai or Cyrillic characters?
> I really hope I don't have to roll my own sorting algorithm.

See http://pecl.php.net/package/intl and
http://docs.php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php

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