On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:18:39AM +0100, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke wrote: > What I think as the biggest problem is the digit representation necessary > for Radix-Sort in cases of locales which sort without looking at spaces. I > assume that would be hard to implement. The same goes for the proposed > mapping of string values onto 4/8-byte values.
Actually, this is easy. The standard C library provides strxfrm() and other locale toolkits like ICU provide ucol_getSortKey(). Windows provides LCMapString(). Just pass each string through this and take the first four bytes of the result to form your integer key. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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