Re: Locale collation rules

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> > > > > > "Guilhem" == Guilhem Lavaux <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > >            
>
> Guilhem> Is it legally possible to get the rules returned by sun jdk's
> Guilhem> RuseBasedCollator.getRules() as it was done in Mauve ?
>
> We would have to have RMS ask the FSF lawyer about this.
>
> When I initially wrote this code I avoided this issue.
> One option might be to see if we can further adapt the glibc
> localeconv program to generate the collation rules for us.
>
> Tom
>  
Hi Tom,

Do you know how much of the java's locale information can be found in 
glibc's ? I
remember something like glibc's locale would never be sufficient to 
translate all
necessary informations. I'll download glibc sources and have a look at 
what can be done.

Cheers,
Guilhem.