[oXygen-user] Is Tamil among the languages for which a specific collation is available?

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)]

Hi Jean-Luc,

I tried working a little bit with your samples on my side and I think I 
managed to make this work.
In the Oxygen libraries directory "OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\lib" there is a 
JAR library called "icu4j.jar". It is an incomplete version of a larger 
ICU4J library which can be downloaded from:

http://site.icu-project.org/download/59#TOC-ICU4J-Download

Once you have the "icu4j-59_1.jar", move the original "icu4j.jar" from 
the Oxygen library folder to some other place and replace it with this 
larger JAR library.

Also the xsl:sort in the XSLT worked only if I used this syntax:

> <xsl:sort select="." collation="http://www.w3.org/2013/collation/UCA?lang=ta"/>

I do not know much about the values that the collation attribute takes, 
but this was in one of the examples on the Saxonica documentation page:

http://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation/xsl-elements/sort.html

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 9/19/2017 5:15 PM, Jean-Luc Chevillard wrote:
> Greetings
>
> The title of this message says it all:
>
> Is Tamil among the languages for which a specific collation is available
> when using Oxygen?
>
> I have to sort items in the Tamil alphabetical order,
> but when I specify that « lang="ta" »
> as a parameter in my sort command,
> the order I obtain is the one which is based
> on the Unicode codepoint collation,
> which is not what one expects while sorting Tamil words
>
> The same thing happens if I define
> a parameter such as
>
> <xsl:param name="sorting-collation"
> select="'http://saxon.sf.net/collation?lang=ta'"/>
>
> and then use it in a sort command
>
> <xsl:sort select="." collation="{$sorting-collation}"/>
>
>
> To give a specific example
> the following short list is extracted from a much longer list
> which is part of an HTML file
> created by applying an XSLT file
> (containing SORT commands)
> to an XML file
>
>
> <ul>
> <li>அத்தத்தின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 7 items]</li>
> <li>அனந்தன் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 1 items]</li>
> <li>அனற்பொறியின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 1 items]</li>
> <li>அனற்றிரளின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 1 items]</li>
> <li>அனுடத்தின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 7 items]</li>
> <li>அமரமாதர் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 2 items]</li>
> <li>அரக்கர் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 7 items]</li>
> <li>அருகன் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 43 items]</li>
> </ul>
>
> HOWEVER, this is not the proper Tamil dictionnary order order, which
> should be:
>
> <ul>
> <li>அத்தத்தின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 7 items]</li>
> <li>அமரமாதர் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 2 items]</li>
> <li>அரக்கர் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 7 items]</li>
> <li>அருகன் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 43 items]</li>
> <li>அனந்தன் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 1 items]</li>
> <li>அனற்பொறியின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 1 items]</li>
> <li>அனற்றிரளின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 1 items]</li>
> <li>அனுடத்தின் பெயர் [head-word ABOVE 7 items]</li>
> </ul>
>
>
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated
>
>
> -- Jean-Luc Chevillard (currently in Pondicherry, India)
>
> https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard
>
> https://twitter.com/JLC1956
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