Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Sort Order in Calc

Hello Andras,

I have file a bug at[1] with modified locale for the sort order.

[1]  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65809

Regards,


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Friday, 2013-06-14 08:31:11 +0200, Andras Timar wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Tadele Assefa <milkyswd@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Our Language, Sidama, uses the latin script. However, there are
> additional
> > > consonants which are formed by using two letter combinations. Eg ph is
> > > considered one consonant and so are sh, ch, zh, ts, ny. These
> constants are
> > > ordered after the first constant used to create them. "Our alphabet"
> reads,
> > > a,b,c,ch,d,dh, e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,ny,o,p,etc
> > >
> > > As a result, we want to sort string using this order. eg the words
> > > cala, chala, cola should be sorted cala, cola,chala... ch has to come
> after
> > > c.
> > >
> > > So, how can we include this behavior in LO?
> >
> > You need to add the rules to LC_INDEX section of your locale.
> > (i18npool/source/localedata/data/sid_ET.xml)
>
> Well, yes, but the IndexKey element is only used for Writer's index
> table feature. General sorting uses collation, defaulting to ICU's
> Unicode collation rules. If Unicode did not define these exemptions for
> 'sid' or ICU didn't implement it yet then we'd have to add a language
> specific rule to i18npool/source/collator/data/
>
>
> > See a working solution (Hungarian) at:
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/i18npool/source/localedata/data/hu_HU.xml#205
>
> Btw, why does that opengrok instance not understand UTF-8?
>
>   Eike
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