From ALB@immedia.ca Tue Feb 15 12:47:00 1994 Received: from Clouso.CRIM.CA by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA21754 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Tue, 15 Feb 1994 18:43:59 +0100 Received: from immedia.ca ([192.139.197.1]) by clouso.crim.ca (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16948; Tue, 15 Feb 94 12:42:54 EST Return-Path: Received: by immedia.ca (3.2/2.D) id AA32057; 15 Feb 94 17:49:17 -0500 Date: 15 Feb 94 17:47:00 -0500 From: ALB@immedia.ca Message-Id: <199402151749.AA32057@immedia.ca> To: sc22wg20@dkuug.dk Cc: cpwg-mail@revcan.rct.ca, i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: Ordering required in DSSL - ISO 10179 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 ---------- I have received the following message from Mr. James Clark, working on DSSL. I transmitted some useful information you already have all, and I offered him to contact us if they wanted a liaison between SC22/WG20 and his group. I pointed him the Canadian ordering stnadrad, the POSIX model (9945-2), the annex of the Framework model edited in Gentofte on ordering, the International NP, the disposition of comments on it and soem email discussions. It was too long to copy all this to you all as it would have annoyed those who already have this. Alain +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 10:01:40 GMT From: jjc@jclark.com (James Clark) Message-Id: <9402151001.AA28389@jclark.com> To: Alain LaBonte Subject: Sorting Glenn Adams mentioned to me that you had developed a good algorithm for doing culturally expected sorting. I was wondering if there was anything on it you could send me on it. I'm working on DSSSL (ISO 10179), and I believe we're currently planning to use the same scheme as HyTime (ISO 10744, clause 6.5.2.2) This uses lists of integers as sort keys, and allows you to associate them with sequences of characters. Glenn said this was inadequate for real-world data. If you could think of some concrete examples of important cases that this scheme can't handle, that would be very useful. James Clark jjc@jclark.com