@Fred Sortroutine

Pinhead · Post by **Pinhead** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:54 am

Hello,
the sort-procedure place ü,ö,ä at the end of the list. Is it possible
to implement for german User that sort use internel a=ä,u=ü,o=ö,
because ü,ö,ä at the end oft the list is wrong..

Greetings Volker

Thorsten1867 · Post by **Thorsten1867** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:18 pm

That would be a good idea!!!

Post by **Fred** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:30 pm

This is not realistic to do that for all langages.. You can still replace all these letter with the non-accent one, sort it, and put back the original strings in it.

Pinhead · Post by **Pinhead** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:44 pm

so I do...
Thanx for the Answer!
Your Sort-Procedure is very very fast!

Michael Vogel · Post by **Michael Vogel** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:58 am

Fred wrote:This is not realistic to do that for all langages.. You can still replace all these letter with the non-accent one, sort it, and put back the original strings in it.

Can be complicate with unicode, but using one byte chars, the sort routine could have an additional parameter pointing to a 256 byte table which includes the sort order you like.

But maybe all (western) countries would sort in the same way?
Concentrating on the alphabet (the order of cyphers etc. should be equal everywhere), I would say, it is typical to put all variations of 'a' at the beginning, with accents (á, à, ä, å, ã, â, æ etc.) After that there is 'b', then 'c' (followed by cedille?) etc.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:18 am

No. Let me show you a sorted list in my language

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
æ
ø
å

Michael Vogel · Post by **Michael Vogel** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:45 am

Trond wrote:No. Let me show you a sorted list in my language

a
:
y
z
æ
ø
å

Will that be the same in finland, sweden, danmark etc.?

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:55 am

I think you can (should) use the CompareString() API to compare strings correctly for different locales.

The rules are very complex, so better leave it to an API and some suitable sorting algorithm.

maw · Post by **maw** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:23 am

Will that be the same in finland, sweden, danmark etc.?

No, we dont even have the same characters

In Sweden we use: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ

Michael Vogel · Post by **Michael Vogel** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:28 am

maw wrote:
Will that be the same in finland, sweden, danmark etc.?
No, we dont even have the same characters

In Sweden we use: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ

Bad luck, I just tried it

unused chars wouldn't be a problem, but chars in different order ('Ä' after 'Å' in swedish, between 'A' and 'B' in german etc.) would lead to implement different sorting arrays...