I just updated my live demo on:
http://www.overset.com/2008/08/30/animated-sortable-datagrid-jquery-plugin-jtps/
.. to set the first column to the first 43 scripts in the ARABIC 0600
Unicode block. It appears that the sort works even on unicode+ascii strings
in FF3 and IE7. I'll do some more work on testing this.
Thanks again for the input!
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Jim Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guy,
>
> It appears that the natural sort works with unicode characters - at least
> in FF3. This is due to the fact that it uses the browser's built in
> comparison operators (< and >) on strings - even unicode characters. Other
> sorts I've seen rely on translating blocks of strings with solely
> [:[alpha]:] or a /[\D]{1,}/. I'll put a better test case together on my site
> so you can see the unicode sorting and I'll test other browsers, but I would
> imagine they would work the same considering this uses the built in
> comparisons. The catch will be ensuring this sorts appropriately on mixed
> unicode and numeric digit fields.
>
> I just tested with the appending to the beginning of some cell's text some
> arabic characters in the 600 block, i.e. '\u0631', '\u0632', etc.
>
> I'll let you know when the test case is done!
> Thanks for the input!
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Guy Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Mike Nichols wrote:
>> > sweet...i implemented natural sorting in tablesorter but it never got
>> > put in so I am thrilled to see it baked into your implementation...
>> > looks good
>>
>>
>> Does the natural sort work with Unicode chars (Chinese, Norwegian, etc)?
>>
>> >>
>>
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