Re: sorting Chinese characters

[punch_card_don]

in reply to sorting Chinese characters

If it were me, I think I'd step back from the problem a moment and ask myself if trying to synchronize two independent sorting mechanisms is really what I want. Sounds like a potential source of on-going headaches.

Would assigning a unique identifier that defines order on both systems work in the given situation?

[larryk]

The key in the index is unique the Unicode standard is supposed to define the order. I was rather hoping I could depend on that, since it is supposed to be a standard.

Looks like my options are:

• I could use the ordinal value of the characters and do a numeric sort instead of a textual sort. That's what I was suggesting in point 2 above.
• The only other option is to ditch my Perl index creation and rewrite it in C# so that the index creation and the index usage are both using exactly the same sorting library. Not sure I want to go there yet, though.
Any other options?