[I18n-sig] python implementation of unicode collation algorithm

[Jim Fulton]

James Tauber wrote:
> I've made a start on a pure python implementation of the Unicode  
> Collation Algorithm (UTS #10) but I thought I'd best check with this  
> SIG whether such a thing already exists.

I'm not aware of any pure python implementations.

I've created a pyrex-based C wrapper of the ICU collation library at:

   http://svn.zope.org/zope.ucol/trunk/

You don't need pyrex to use this and there is a distutils
setup script to install it.

I'd be happy to make an official release of this if anyone is
interested.

There is also a SWIG-based C++ wrapper of a much larger portion of the
ICU library, including collation at:

   http://pyicu.osafoundation.org/

This requires swig, hand editing of makefiles, and dynamic-library
machinations, which is in large part why I ended up writing my own
wrapper.

Jim

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