[Mono-dev] How to make new locales for CultureInfo?

[Atsushi Eno]

Hello John,

> We don't need a language to be known to or distributed by ICU. We can use
> the ICU library, for example, by feeding it custom collation rules and then
> asking it for sortkeys.  We've done this in a previous project that was C++.
> For this one, we'll make some kind of ICU-Sharp wrapper.

Ok, I understand.

BTW if you could give us a managed implementation for ICU, that would
be awesome (pure C# code is extraordinary great, but a wrapper is
still good)

:-)

>>  Also note that CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder never helps custom
>>  string collation. That framework is only for number and date
>>  formatting.
> 
> Ok. I was thinking that 
> 1) CultureInfo does string comparison,then 
> 2)since CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder can make a CultureInfo out of an LDML,
> and 
> 3) LDML defines custom collations, and
> 4) the resulting CultureInfo would use the custom collation rules in the
> ldml.
> 
> It sounds like you're saying Microsoft's ldml reader ignores the
> <collations> element of ldml? Oh well, that's too bad.

Yes. Note that MS String collation does not conform to UTS #10
(Unicode Collation Algorithm) so there is no hope. Their design
is 10 years behind (almost literally; UTS #10 is specified in 1998).

Atsushi Eno