On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.rs> wrote:
For some time now, I am thinking about a stupidly
simple solution:
php -r 'for($i = 0; $i < 65536; $i++) { echo pack("nx", $i); echo
"\n"; }'|
iconv -f ucs-2be -t utf8 | sort | php -r 'foreach(file("php://stdin") as
$v)
{ echo var_export(substr($v, 0, -1)) . " => \"" .
str_pad(base_convert($i,
10, 36), 4, 0, STR_PAD_LEFT) . "\",\n"; $i++; }'
This doesn't account for how complicated proper locale-specific
sorting is. Multi-character strings do not sort just based on
splitting them into characters and sorting those. You can have the
same character sorting differently in different contexts. There are
well-established libraries for Unicode sorting, and we certainly
should not try to reinvent the wheel here.