IcuCollation is the name of the mediawiki class. The actual underlying code
is from a software project called Icu (or more specificly icu4c). Which
version used depends on which version mediawiki is compiled against.
Version 1.8 is really really old (which makes me think you got the wrong
software project maybe?). The latest stable release is 50, but 51 is going
to be released soon. We use version 4.2 of icu library which implements
CLDR 1.7 and Unicode 5.1, which is a tad older but not horribly. I believe
people want to update icu to a newer version for better chinese collation.
I imagine eventually things would be updated to a version that has the
script reordering. Otoh icu library updates have a high cost, so maybe not
unless there is a better benefit than reordering the script. (note script
reordering is already an option. The only difference in newest uca is that
reordering the script is the default instead of an option).
Tl; dr: no. Its compatible with a version of uca. But uca is not a fixed
standard and changes.
-bawolff
On 2013-03-02 8:31 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
I googled for IcuCollation and found this on their website ... Starting in
release 1.8, the ICU Collation Service is updated to be fully compliant to
the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) (
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ ) and conforms to ISO 14651.
My question, will we use a version of IcuCollation that is later than 1.8.
Asking if IcuCollation supports the latest version of the UCA is probably
too much to ask for... It would give us alphabetic characters after the
characters of a default script.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 27 February 2013 23:50, Bartosz DziewoĆski <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just yesterday I managed to get
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/**
r/#/c/49776/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/49776/> merged. Based
heavily on Tim's work on the IcuCollation, it allows one to *finally* get
articles to be correctly sorted on category pages for 67 languages based
in
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45443>to track the process
of getting this deployed to Wikimedia wikis. The
process is already underway for uk.wiki and
pl.wiki; if anybody technical
wishes to get it on their wiki first, please create a sub-bug and start a
community discussion/vote - I can provide a testwiki in your language :)
Eventually, I'd like this to be deployed on all wikis in those 67
languages. I'll start poking people about this (and will drop a mail to
-ambassadors) once wmf11 is deployed and the change goes live on a few
wikis.
--
Matma Rex
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