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RE: Collation implementation
- To: "libstdc++" <libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Collation implementation
- From: "Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan" <ShivShanks at MailandNews dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:54:29 +0530
|implementation has been to use glibc's data files and algorithms
|(especially WRT string collation, for which I cannot simply use
|nl_langinfo), but that is not a good choice because the data file format
|is subject to change, and the algorithms themselves are in flux.
I would suggest that you have a serious look at ICU -
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/
Its open source, heavily used and stable with a well documented data
files format (binary as well as text mode). And I have used it a bit.
At this stage I can say that probably its the most usable I18N library
available.
Mind you that libstdc++ locales etc hasn't been finished and even then
there would be issues about what backend system locale facility to use
etc. Maybe there could be a possibility of using ICU also for this.
Thanks,
Shiv