Globalization and culture

[Tony Johansson]

Hi!

The text at the bottom is from e-learning and there is one thing that I
wonder about.
If you have a language it could be any language. This language is spoken in
many different regions and countries then I mean when you sort a string in
all these region and countries where this language is spoken you will have
the same sorting. I mean the sorting must be based only on the language and
not as the text says "because alphabetical order varies based on the
language and region in use"

"While developing globalized applications, you may need to sort or arrange
strings according to the language and regional order because alphabetical
order varies based on the language and region in use. In addition, the rules
related to evaluating equality in characters vary according to the language
and regional conventions."



//Tony

 

[Alberto Poblacion]

[...] I mean when you sort a string in all these region and countries
where this language is spoken you will have the same sorting. I mean the
sorting must be based only on the language and not as the text says
"because alphabetical order varies based on the language and region in
use"

For example, in Spanish the combination "ch" is considered a single
character and it is sorted between "c" and "d" in those areas that choose to
configure the computer as "Spanish-Traditional Sort". However, Windows also
offers the choice of "Spanish-Modern Sort", where "ch" is sorted just like
in English, as a "c" followed by an "h". I am not aware at this moment of
which countries favor Traditional Sort versus Modern Sort, but the point is
that just saying that the language is "Spanish" is not enough to completely
specify the sorting; it may also be influenced by regional variations.