On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:35:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perl Authors Upload Server) wrote:
> modid: Lingua::Klingon::Collate OK, perhaps I should have entered something for a rationale. This module lets you sort according to Klingon collation order. Some Klingon letters are represented, in the conventional orthography, with multi-letter graphemes(?) such as 'ng'. This is a letter of its own, coming after 'n'; hence, 'ngan' sorts properly after 'nob' since 'ng' gt 'n'. This module implements strcoll() and strxfrm() which are similar in spirit to the C functions of the same name -- strcoll() is basically a Klingon-aware version of strcmp() and strxfrm() can be used to pre-process Klingon words into tokens which sort correctly if compared with strcmp() (or Perl's "cmp" operator). The module also has a strunxfrm() function which will reverse that transformation, since it's lossless. I picked "Collate" since the module's main purpose is to assist with sorting or collation. Cheers, Philip
