On 10/04/2026 03:00, Collin Funk wrote:
Thomas Wolff <[email protected]> writes:
Am 07.04.2026 um 12:28 schrieb Dan Jacobson:
I hereby propose Coreutils' sort(1) add the ability to sort Chinese
(actually CJK) numbers.
https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/64035/how-to-sort-chinese-numbers-with-a-computer
Isn't Chinese has the most native speakers in the world so it's high
time that sort(1) deal with the numbers, pun intended.
A suitable basis for such handling is file Unihan_NumericValues.txt in
the Unihan.zip from Unicode.org.
GNU libunistring has the uc_numeric_value function to convert Unicode
characters to numeric values.
Related to this is conversion in general.
I.e. convert once and compare many,
trades more mem for better algorithmic behavior.
See strxfrm() for example.
cheers,
Padraig
