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Re: Collator (1.8.0_77)

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Volker Borchert wrote:

> From reading the javadoc on the Collator strength values, I came to
> the conclusion that it should be possible to have a Collator that
> sorts "B" before "a" using TERTIARY. But - no. Strength apparently
> applies only to comparisons of "a" with "A", other than the javadoc
> on PRIMARY lured me into assuming.
> 
> The use case: a somewhat generic OR-mapped table widget offering an
> API hook to sort by columns. Currently I'm using String's compareTo()
> and compareToIgnoreCase() to offer change case sensitivity without
> changing behaviour otherwise. Now I'd like to switch to Collator
> beause I want umlauts and ß handled properly, and am looking
> for a way to avoid expensively toLower()ing before each comparison,
> or less expensively but more footprintingly generating some sort of
> sort keys.
> 
> Ideas anyone?

Thinking it over, I come to the conclusion that my desire might be
somewhat self-contradictory - language specifics like umlauts and
pure technicals like (upper < lower) mixed up. So, it's probably
best to forget about it.

-- 

"I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." Dr Leonard McCoy <mccoy@ncc1701.starfleet.fed>
"I'm a mechanic, not a doctor." Volker Borchert  <v_borchert@despammed.com>

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