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Talk:Natural sorting: Difference between revisions
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:For me: It involves aspects of unicode where I do not have complete knowledge nor do I know how to get complete knowledge (this seems to apply for orderings 2 3 6 7 8 and maybe 4), so I am waiting until I am inspired to try to discover these structures in unicode, or for someone else to pick it up. (Also, the examples look necessarily bulky.) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 14:43, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
:I may be blinded by the only way I can think of to do it in Java, but it seems to me that the task is a super-complex version of [[Sort using a custom comparator]]. I'm not sure that linking to a particular example's output is the best way to define the task. We ran into problems with that in [[Multisplit]]. Beyond all of that it does seem like a lot of work. Do umlauts count as accents? Should they be sorted as their expansion like scharfes? What about circumflexes (circumfleces? circumfli?)? There is a whole list of marks [[wp:Diacritic|here]]. Some of them represent condensations of letters (like ss condensed to a scharfe), some represent accents, and some represent different pronunciations (like a cedilla in French or tilde in Spanish). As you can see, this can get pretty complicated quickly. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 15:25, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
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