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

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

Hello Radu,

thanks a lot for this.

I shall try

This gives me courage! :-)

-- Jean-Luc (in Pondy)

https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard

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On 20/09/2017 18:14, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) wrote:
> 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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