NAME

Unicode::Collate::Locale - Linguistic tailoring for DUCET via Unicode::Collate

SYNOPSIS

use Unicode::Collate::Locale;

#construct
$Collator = Unicode::Collate::Locale->
    new(locale => $locale_name, %tailoring);

#sort
@sorted = $Collator->sort(@not_sorted);

#compare
$result = $Collator->cmp($a, $b); # returns 1, 0, or -1.

Note: Strings in @not_sorted, $a and $b are interpreted according to Perl's Unicode support. See perlunicode, perluniintro, perlunitut, perlunifaq, utf8. Otherwise you can use preprocess (cf. Unicode::Collate) or should decode them before.

DESCRIPTION

This module provides linguistic tailoring for it taking advantage of Unicode::Collate.

Constructor

The new method returns a collator object.

A parameter list for the constructor is a hash, which can include a special key locale and its value (case-insensitive) standing for a Unicode base language code (two or three-letter). For example, Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(locale => 'FR') returns a collator tailored for French.

$locale_name may be suffixed with a Unicode script code (four-letter), a Unicode region code, a Unicode language variant code. These codes are case-insensitive, and separated with '_' or '-'. E.g. en_US for English in USA, az_Cyrl for Azerbaijani in the Cyrillic script, es_ES_traditional for Spanish in Spain (Traditional).

If $locale_name is not available, fallback is selected in the following order:

1. language with a variant code
2. language with a script code
3. language with a region code
4. language
5. default

Tailoring tags provided by Unicode::Collate are allowed as long as they are not used for locale support. Esp. the table tag is always untailorable, since it is reserved for DUCET.

However entry is allowed, even if it is used for locale support, to add or override mappings.

E.g. a collator for French, which ignores diacritics and case difference (i.e. level 1), with reversed case ordering and no normalization.

Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(
    level => 1,
    locale => 'fr',
    upper_before_lower => 1,
    normalization => undef
)

Overriding a behavior already tailored by locale is disallowed if such a tailoring is passed to new().

Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(
    locale => 'da',
    upper_before_lower => 0, # causes error as reserved by 'da'
)

However change() inherited from Unicode::Collate allows such a tailoring that is reserved by locale. Examples:

new(locale => 'ca')->change(backwards => undef)
new(locale => 'da')->change(upper_before_lower => 0)
new(locale => 'ja')->change(overrideCJK => undef)

Methods

Unicode::Collate::Locale is a subclass of Unicode::Collate and methods other than new are inherited from Unicode::Collate.

Here is a list of additional methods:

$Collator->getlocale

Returns a language code accepted and used actually on collation. If linguistic tailoring is not provided for a language code you passed (intensionally for some languages, or due to the incomplete implementation), this method returns a string 'default' meaning no special tailoring.

$Collator->locale_version

(Since Unicode::Collate::Locale 0.87) Returns the version number (perhaps /\d\.\d\d/) of the locale, as that of Locale/*.pl.

Note: Locale/*.pl that a collator uses should be identified by a combination of return values from getlocale and locale_version.

A list of tailorable locales

  locale name       description
--------------------------------------------------------------
  af                Afrikaans
  ar                Arabic
  as                Assamese
  az                Azerbaijani (Azeri)
  be                Belarusian
  bg                Bulgarian
  bn                Bengali
  bs                Bosnian
  bs_Cyrl           Bosnian in Cyrillic (tailored as Serbian)
  ca                Catalan
  cs                Czech
  cy                Welsh
  da                Danish
  de__phonebook     German (umlaut as 'ae', 'oe', 'ue')
  ee                Ewe
  eo                Esperanto
  es                Spanish
  es__traditional   Spanish ('ch' and 'll' as a grapheme)
  et                Estonian
  fa                Persian
  fi                Finnish (v and w are primary equal)
  fi__phonebook     Finnish (v and w as separate characters)
  fil               Filipino
  fo                Faroese
  fr                French
  gu                Gujarati
  ha                Hausa
  haw               Hawaiian
  hi                Hindi
  hr                Croatian
  hu                Hungarian
  hy                Armenian
  ig                Igbo
  is                Icelandic
  ja                Japanese [1]
  kk                Kazakh
  kl                Kalaallisut
  kn                Kannada
  ko                Korean [2]
  kok               Konkani
  ln                Lingala
  lt                Lithuanian
  lv                Latvian
  mk                Macedonian
  ml                Malayalam
  mr                Marathi
  mt                Maltese
  nb                Norwegian Bokmal
  nn                Norwegian Nynorsk
  nso               Northern Sotho
  om                Oromo
  or                Oriya
  pa                Punjabi
  pl                Polish
  ro                Romanian
  ru                Russian
  sa                Sanskrit
  se                Northern Sami
  si                Sinhala
  si__dictionary    Sinhala (U+0DA5 = U+0DA2,0DCA,0DA4)
  sk                Slovak
  sl                Slovenian
  sq                Albanian
  sr                Serbian
  sr_Latn           Serbian in Latin (tailored as Croatian)
  sv                Swedish (v and w are primary equal)
  sv__reformed      Swedish (v and w as separate characters)
  ta                Tamil
  te                Telugu
  th                Thai
  tn                Tswana
  to                Tonga
  tr                Turkish
  uk                Ukrainian
  ur                Urdu
  vi                Vietnamese
  wae               Walser
  wo                Wolof
  yo                Yoruba
  zh                Chinese
  zh__big5han       Chinese (ideographs: big5 order)
  zh__gb2312han     Chinese (ideographs: GB-2312 order)
  zh__pinyin        Chinese (ideographs: pinyin order) [3]
  zh__stroke        Chinese (ideographs: stroke order) [3]
  zh__zhuyin        Chinese (ideographs: zhuyin order) [3]
--------------------------------------------------------------

Locales according to the default UCA rules include chr (Cherokee), de (German), en (English), ga (Irish), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), ka (Georgian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pt (Portuguese), st (Southern Sotho), sw (Swahili), xh (Xhosa), zu (Zulu).

Note

[1] ja: Ideographs are sorted in JIS X 0208 order. Fullwidth and halfwidth forms are identical to their regular form. The difference between hiragana and katakana is at the 4th level, the comparison also requires (variable => 'Non-ignorable'), and then katakana_before_hiragana has no effect.

[2] ko: Plenty of ideographs are sorted by their reading. Such an ideograph is primary (level 1) equal to, and secondary (level 2) greater than, the corresponding hangul syllable.

[3] zh__pinyin, zh__stroke and zh__zhuyin: implemented alt='short', where a smaller number of ideographs are tailored.

Note: 'pinyin' is in latin, 'zhuyin' is in bopomofo.

INSTALL

Installation of Unicode::Collate::Locale requires Collate/Locale.pm, Collate/Locale/*.pm, Collate/CJK/*.pm and Collate/allkeys.txt. On building, Unicode::Collate::Locale doesn't require any of data/*.txt, gendata/*, and mklocale. Tests for Unicode::Collate::Locale are named t/loc_*.t.

CAVEAT

tailoring is not maximum: Even if a certain letter is tailored, its equivalent would not always tailored as well as it. For example, even though W is tailored, fullwidth W (U+FF37), W with acute (U+1E82), etc. are not tailored. The result may depend on whether source strings are normalized or not, and whether decomposed or composed. Thus (normalization => undef) is less preferred.

AUTHOR

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

	Global
`s`	Focus search bar
`?`	Bring up this help dialog

	GitHub
`g` `p`	Go to pull requests
`g` `i`	Go to GitHub issues (only if GitHub is preferred repository)

	POD
`g` `a`	Go to author
`g` `c`	Go to changes
`g` `i`	Go to issues
`g` `d`	Go to dist
`g` `r`	Go to repository/SCM
`g` `s`	Go to source
`g` `b`	Go to file browse

Search terms
module: (e.g. module:Plugin)
distribution: (e.g. distribution:Dancer auth)
author: (e.g. author:SONGMU Redis)
version: (e.g. version:1.00)