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From: Tony Johansson on 30 Mar 2010 11:42 Hi! The text at the bottom is from e-learning and there is one thing that I wonder about. If you have a language it could be any language. This language is spoken in many different regions and countries then I mean when you sort a string in all these region and countries where this language is spoken you will have the same sorting. I mean the sorting must be based only on the language and not as the text says "because alphabetical order varies based on the language and region in use" "While developing globalized applications, you may need to sort or arrange strings according to the language and regional order because alphabetical order varies based on the language and region in use. In addition, the rules related to evaluating equality in characters vary according to the language and regional conventions." //Tony
From: Arne Vajhøj on 30 Mar 2010 19:09 On 30-03-2010 11:42, Tony Johansson wrote: > The text at the bottom is from e-learning and there is one thing that I > wonder about. > If you have a language it could be any language. This language is spoken in > many different regions and countries then I mean when you sort a string in > all these region and countries where this language is spoken you will have > the same sorting. I mean the sorting must be based only on the language and > not as the text says "because alphabetical order varies based on the > language and region in use" > > "While developing globalized applications, you may need to sort or arrange > strings according to the language and regional order because alphabetical > order varies based on the language and region in use. In addition, the rules > related to evaluating equality in characters vary according to the language > and regional conventions." I can not think of a case where different regions within the same language sort different. But there could be some. Or maybe MS just wanted to keep the possibility open. Arne
From: Mihai N. on 31 Mar 2010 05:06
> If you have a language it could be any language. This language is spoken in > many different regions and countries then I mean when you sort a string in > all these region and countries where this language is spoken you will have > the same sorting. No. Spanish Spain has two different sort orders, "modern" and "traditional" Only the traditional one is used in Latin America. German also has two sort orders, but the "phonebook" one is only used in Germany. Also, countries are free to change the sorting rules (see recent example here http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/04/27/584439.aspx) This kind of changes don't usually affect speakers of that language that live in other countries. I am pretty sure that if the French Academy decides something on sorting, the changes are not mandatory for Canada :-) -- Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Visual C++] http://www.mihai-nita.net ------------------------------------------ Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email |