[Corpora-List] sorting OHG (non-ASCII) in PERL

[Alex Murzaku]

while not claiming to be a "freak" I thought it might help you look at:
     <http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/Unicode/Collate.html>
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/Unicode/Collate.html

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From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On
Behalf Of Henning Reetz
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:57 AM
To: corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] sorting OHG (non-ASCII) in PERL


Hi,

stupid question but perhaps the freaks can help me:

we're building a database of Old High German words. Obviously, there are
some characters that are not in ASCII (diacritics like stress marks '
and carots ^) and chars that do not follow the 'normal' sorting order
(like 'uu' for 'w'). One possibility would be to recode these chars
(e.g. get rid off the diacritics for sorting and put them back on in the
output), but is there a more elegant and general way (e.g. in case one
would like to have a long 'e' after the short 'e' etc.) so that one
could use it for other scripts as well (UTF puts chars in an order that
does not necessarily reflect the 'intuitiv' sequence in a language). -
Is there a modul to tell PERL which sorting sequence one would like to
use or do I have to program it myself?

Thanx for any hints.

Henning Reetz
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