OpenOffice Japanese sort order correct?

Krusty_Clown · 19-04-2005 02:58PM #1

Hi Guys, I'm playing around with OpenOffice, and was wondering if the sorting algorithm for non-alphabetic characters is correct?

So if you look at the attached GIF, I sorted the left table by the Alphabetic characters, and the right table by the Japanese characters. I'm just wondering if OpenOffice sorts correctly according to Kana syllabary, or by the Unicode equivalents for each character (or using some other random algorithm!)..

Can anyone confirm or deny?

elvenscout742 · 19-04-2005 06:00PM

Yea, 'tis correct. May I ask why?

Krusty_Clown · 20-04-2005 02:23PM

Sure.. I work for a company that has a Linux distribution, and one of the products included in the distribution is OpenOffice.. I was just wondering if they had got the sort order correct, which can be quite tricky for double-byte languages. More a curiosity than anything..

I did find this sort order algorithm from a Microsoft site: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052674011033.aspx

But unfortunately, I do not have the necessary Japanese language skills in order to validate that the OpenOffice sort was accurrate...

I did however, create these same folder names in XP, and working on the assumption that Microsoft would have done it correctly, validated that the sort order was the same as that of OO.

Thanks for the help elvenscout742. Oh and if your question was about the company names/Englishised Japanese words, I just used those as a sample, as I figured they would be well-formed.

OpenOffice Japanese sort order correct?

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