Provided by: libunicode-collate-perl_1.04-1_amd64 bug

NAME

       Unicode::Collate::Locale - Linguistic tailoring for DUCET via Unicode::Collate

SYNOPSIS

         use Unicode::Collate::Locale;

         #construct
         $Collator = Unicode::Collate::Locale->
             new(locale => $locale_name, %tailoring);

         #sort
         @sorted = $Collator->sort(@not_sorted);

         #compare
         $result = $Collator->cmp($a, $b); # returns 1, 0, or -1.

       Note: Strings in @not_sorted, $a and $b are interpreted according to Perl's Unicode
       support. See perlunicode, perluniintro, perlunitut, perlunifaq, utf8.  Otherwise you can
       use "preprocess" (cf. "Unicode::Collate") or should decode them before.

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides linguistic tailoring for it taking advantage of "Unicode::Collate".

   Constructor
       The "new" method returns a collator object.

       A parameter list for the constructor is a hash, which can include a special key "locale"
       and its value (case-insensitive) standing for a Unicode base language code (two or three-
       letter).  For example, "Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(locale => 'FR')" returns a collator
       tailored for French.

       $locale_name may be suffixed with a Unicode script code (four-letter), a Unicode region
       code, a Unicode language variant code. These codes are case-insensitive, and separated
       with '_' or '-'.  E.g. "en_US" for English in USA, "az_Cyrl" for Azerbaijani in the
       Cyrillic script, "es_ES_traditional" for Spanish in Spain (Traditional).

       If $locale_name is not available, fallback is selected in the following order:

           1. language with a variant code
           2. language with a script code
           3. language with a region code
           4. language
           5. default

       Tailoring tags provided by "Unicode::Collate" are allowed as long as they are not used for
       "locale" support.  Esp. the "table" tag is always untailorable, since it is reserved for
       DUCET.

       However "entry" is allowed, even if it is used for "locale" support, to add or override
       mappings.

       E.g. a collator for French, which ignores diacritics and case difference (i.e. level 1),
       with reversed case ordering and no normalization.

           Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(
               level => 1,
               locale => 'fr',
               upper_before_lower => 1,
               normalization => undef
           )

       Overriding a behavior already tailored by "locale" is disallowed if such a tailoring is
       passed to "new()".

           Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(
               locale => 'da',
               upper_before_lower => 0, # causes error as reserved by 'da'
           )

       However "change()" inherited from "Unicode::Collate" allows such a tailoring that is
       reserved by "locale". Examples:

           new(locale => 'ca')->change(backwards => undef)
           new(locale => 'da')->change(upper_before_lower => 0)
           new(locale => 'ja')->change(overrideCJK => undef)

   Methods
       "Unicode::Collate::Locale" is a subclass of "Unicode::Collate" and methods other than
       "new" are inherited from "Unicode::Collate".

       Here is a list of additional methods:

       "$Collator->getlocale"
           Returns a language code accepted and used actually on collation.  If linguistic
           tailoring is not provided for a language code you passed (intensionally for some
           languages, or due to the incomplete implementation), this method returns a string
           'default' meaning no special tailoring.

       "$Collator->locale_version"
           (Since Unicode::Collate::Locale 0.87) Returns the version number (perhaps
           "/\d\.\d\d/") of the locale, as that of Locale/*.pl.

           Note: Locale/*.pl that a collator uses should be identified by a combination of return
           values from "getlocale" and "locale_version".

   A list of tailorable locales
             locale name       description
           --------------------------------------------------------------
             af                Afrikaans
             ar                Arabic
             as                Assamese
             az                Azerbaijani (Azeri)
             be                Belarusian
             bg                Bulgarian
             bn                Bengali
             bs                Bosnian
             bs_Cyrl           Bosnian in Cyrillic (tailored as Serbian)
             ca                Catalan
             cs                Czech
             cy                Welsh
             da                Danish
             de__phonebook     German (umlaut as 'ae', 'oe', 'ue')
             ee                Ewe
             eo                Esperanto
             es                Spanish
             es__traditional   Spanish ('ch' and 'll' as a grapheme)
             et                Estonian
             fa                Persian
             fi                Finnish (v and w are primary equal)
             fi__phonebook     Finnish (v and w as separate characters)
             fil               Filipino
             fo                Faroese
             fr                French
             gu                Gujarati
             ha                Hausa
             haw               Hawaiian
             hi                Hindi
             hr                Croatian
             hu                Hungarian
             hy                Armenian
             ig                Igbo
             is                Icelandic
             ja                Japanese [1]
             kk                Kazakh
             kl                Kalaallisut
             kn                Kannada
             ko                Korean [2]
             kok               Konkani
             ln                Lingala
             lt                Lithuanian
             lv                Latvian
             mk                Macedonian
             ml                Malayalam
             mr                Marathi
             mt                Maltese
             nb                Norwegian Bokmal
             nn                Norwegian Nynorsk
             nso               Northern Sotho
             om                Oromo
             or                Oriya
             pa                Punjabi
             pl                Polish
             ro                Romanian
             ru                Russian
             sa                Sanskrit
             se                Northern Sami
             si                Sinhala
             si__dictionary    Sinhala (U+0DA5 = U+0DA2,0DCA,0DA4)
             sk                Slovak
             sl                Slovenian
             sq                Albanian
             sr                Serbian
             sr_Latn           Serbian in Latin (tailored as Croatian)
             sv                Swedish (v and w are primary equal)
             sv__reformed      Swedish (v and w as separate characters)
             ta                Tamil
             te                Telugu
             th                Thai
             tn                Tswana
             to                Tonga
             tr                Turkish
             uk                Ukrainian
             ur                Urdu
             vi                Vietnamese
             wae               Walser
             wo                Wolof
             yo                Yoruba
             zh                Chinese
             zh__big5han       Chinese (ideographs: big5 order)
             zh__gb2312han     Chinese (ideographs: GB-2312 order)
             zh__pinyin        Chinese (ideographs: pinyin order) [3]
             zh__stroke        Chinese (ideographs: stroke order) [3]
             zh__zhuyin        Chinese (ideographs: zhuyin order) [3]
           --------------------------------------------------------------

       Locales according to the default UCA rules include chr (Cherokee), de (German), en
       (English), ga (Irish), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), ka (Georgian), ms (Malay), nl
       (Dutch), pt (Portuguese), st (Southern Sotho), sw (Swahili), xh (Xhosa), zu (Zulu).

       Note

       [1] ja: Ideographs are sorted in JIS X 0208 order.  Fullwidth and halfwidth forms are
       identical to their regular form.  The difference between hiragana and katakana is at the
       4th level, the comparison also requires "(variable => 'Non-ignorable')", and then
       "katakana_before_hiragana" has no effect.

       [2] ko: Plenty of ideographs are sorted by their reading. Such an ideograph is primary
       (level 1) equal to, and secondary (level 2) greater than, the corresponding hangul
       syllable.

       [3] zh__pinyin, zh__stroke and zh__zhuyin: implemented alt='short', where a smaller number
       of ideographs are tailored.

       Note: 'pinyin' is in latin, 'zhuyin' is in bopomofo.

INSTALL

       Installation of "Unicode::Collate::Locale" requires Collate/Locale.pm,
       Collate/Locale/*.pm, Collate/CJK/*.pm and Collate/allkeys.txt.  On building,
       "Unicode::Collate::Locale" doesn't require any of data/*.txt, gendata/*, and mklocale.
       Tests for "Unicode::Collate::Locale" are named t/loc_*.t.

CAVEAT

       tailoring is not maximum
           Even if a certain letter is tailored, its equivalent would not always tailored as well
           as it. For example, even though W is tailored, fullwidth W ("U+FF37"), W with acute
           ("U+1E82"), etc. are not tailored. The result may depend on whether source strings are
           normalized or not, and whether decomposed or composed.  Thus "(normalization =>
           undef)" is less preferred.

AUTHOR

       The Unicode::Collate::Locale module for perl was written by SADAHIRO Tomoyuki,
       <SADAHIRO@cpan.org>.  This module is Copyright(C) 2004-2013, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki. Japan.
       All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Unicode Collation Algorithm - UTS #10
           <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/>

       The Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET)
           <http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCA/latest/allkeys.txt>

       Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) - UTS #35
           <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/>

       CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
           <http://cldr.unicode.org/>

       Unicode::Collate
       Unicode::Normalize