[Development] Using QCollator on different platforms, without ICU

[Konstantin Ritt]

> ignorePuctuation
:)

Konstantin


2013/8/14 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On terça-feira, 13 de agosto de 2013 19:50:23, Aleix Pol wrote:
>> > It's not pretty and we'll probably want to iterate over the API, but
>> > here's
>> > the status:
>> > - icu: everything works wonderful. Unicorns.
>> > - posix: you can't select either the algorithm or any of the settings.
>> > It's
>> > using the system locale_t, so I don't think we can go much further.
>> > - mac: you can switch only some of the settings, others simply don't
>> > have
>> > an API mapping.
>> > - win: same as mac, but with different parts of the API.
>> >
>> > Now we'd need some kind of discussion regarding what kind of API we'd
>> > like
>> > and how flexible we can be to API that has different behaviors depending
>> > on
>> > what settings it's compiled it (note that most platforms can have all
>> > posix, icu or their own), this way I'll know how to proceed.
>>
>> Thanks for the investigation, Aleix.
>>
>> I'm ok with a non-ICU build supporting only the system locale. Collation
>> in
>> the "C" is trivial, so we can implement that by ourselves.
>>
>> However much I dislike common denominators, what is the common denominator
>> API
>> that we can provide in all platforms?
>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>>
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>
> Hi!
> I've put together a small table displaying whether the different
> methods/properties can be implemented in the different platforms:
> https://qt-project.org/wiki/QCollator
>
> I hope this helps!
> Aleix
>
> PS: I also hope it's ok to create new wiki pages like that :)
>
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