From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: sort-lan.lua nitpicks and sorting
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 11:21:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE3DBB3.6080604@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100502135953.GA9875@aides>
On 2-5-2010 3:59, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> 1. In sort-lan.lua, line 101 should read «['r'] = "r"», and line 144
> «['r'] = 26, -- r».
i patched the file
> 2. Although I read the disclaimer about said file being “preliminary and
> incomplete” -- is there some rationale behind the range of integers for
> each language mapping? The mapping for English goes from 1 to 51,
> interleaving 2 integers for each letter (which is odd because it should
> start from index 3 with “a”, shouldn't it?), while the Czech one goes
> from 1 to 40 without skipping, Finnish and Austrian from 1 to 58.
some old (ruby) code was used etc etc
> What about mapping them onto a larger but common scale that would
> alleviate multilingual sorting so that the alphabetical representation
> of the phoneme /a/ maps to the same value over different languages?†
> E.g.
> ["a"] = 3, -- in a Latin mapping,
> ["α"] = 3, -- in Greek mapping,
> ["а"] = 3, -- in a Russian mapping.
hm, interesting ... feel free to reshuffle and provide patches
> † I know this is impractical for many writing systems and even within
> the set of Latin or Greek based alphabets it largely depends on a given
> purpose how much precision you need in sorting.
indeed but we can have multiple variants and are not bound to specific
conventions
Hans
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2010-05-02 13:59 Philipp Gesang
2010-05-03 7:35 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-05-07 9:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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