Re: Core Data and localized sort on iOS
Re: Core Data and localized sort on iOS
- Subject: Re: Core Data and localized sort on iOS
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:26:22 -0800
Yes, actually I do both. m.
On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013, at 02:54 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>> I didn't say the transliteration was simple. I had to devise a code
>> (properly called a "beta code") that would yield the correct result. To
>> give a simple example, if you want a-accent-aigu to sort before
>> a-accent-grave, you might transliterate them as a1 and a2. Or, just the
>> other way round, if you want them to sort indifferently, you might
>> transliterate them both as a. By the same token, I lowercased everything
>> because I didn't want case to be significant in the sort order. But the
>> point is that this code, once devised, can be machine-generated
>> mechanically at the time you construct the database, and then Bob's your
>> uncle. This technique is as old as the hills and quite as solid. m.
>
> Or, since you're doing this at database construction time, you could
> just sort the entries lexicographically, store their sort rank in a
> field, and only use 4 bytes per row instead of as many as your "clever"
> code requires.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
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