Wow, I have no idea what you just said... but, I think I agree. If I am right, what you are saying is, because the same kanji has multiple readings and the words are sorted by reading and not the kanji itself, that dictionary is going to be impossibly difficult to make.
quick example, skip if you want to -------------------------------------------------> 大学 is read "daigaku" and means college 大き is read "Ōki" and means big. The 大 is read "dai" in one and "O" in the other. Giving the character a priority would not make it sort the right way because the order desired is by the reading, and the reading is all about the context of the characters. giving the character a value would make it be: 大き (Oki) 大学 (Daigaku 最高 (Saiko - means the best, because Django is the best!) When really, alphabetically it is: 大き (Oki) 最高 (Saiko) 大学 (Daigaku) <---------------------------------- End of Example: Man, the Japanese where not thinking about programming when they made their language. Any other suggestions or ways to correctly sort Japanese Words? Cheers, James Hancock On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Masklinn <maskl...@masklinn.net> wrote: > On 2011-01-06, at 07:23 , Sam Walters wrote: > > Hi, > > Personally I would map the priority of every character in a dict and > > pass this to sorted > > Given Japanese is not an alphabetical language and mixes syllabic and > logographic scripts (the logographic system having a few thousand > graphemes), I doubt this kind of trivial ideas is going to work correctly > (it only works correctly for simple alphabetical engines, even diacritics > are going to cause an explosion in the number of cases) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
