The partial collating sequence file included in this section illustrates some of the syntax rules discussed in “Localization file syntax rules”.
When looking at the file, please note the following:
The first line defines the comment character as a semicolon. Any subsequent lines or phrases beginning with a semicolon are comments.
The second line, [sortorder], is a heading for the sortorder section. Entries in this section describe and define the collating sequence. This file does not contain copyright and file format sections, which are optional.
The list separator for the file is a comma (the default).
The escape character for the file is a backslash (the default).
Values that include spaces begin and end with quotation marks, such as the value for “description =”.
The ellipsis “...” indicates deletion
of actual file contents.
; semi-colon is the comment character
[sortorder]
;----------------------------------------------------------------
; Overview
; --------
; Case-sensitive sort order based on the ISO 8859-1 code set.
; Uppercase characters sort before lowercase counterparts.
;
; Ligatures and sort doubles
; --------------------------
; AE, ae ligatures
; German sharp-s ligature with “ss”
;
; Sort order
; ----------
; 1. non-alphanumeric characters in binary order
; 2. numeric digits
; 3. alphabetic characters used in English, French, German
; 4. Alphabetic characters not used in English, French, German
;
; Format
; ------
; Default formatting values. There is no [file format] section.
;----------------------------------------------------------------class = 0x01
id = 0x33
menuname = “Case-sensitive dictionary sort order”
name = dictionary
charset = iso_1
description = “Dictionary sort order for use with English,\ French and German.
ISO 8859-1,case sensitive.”
;
; Ligatures for English, French, German
lig = 0xC6, after AE
lig = 0xE6, after ae
lig = 0xDF, after ss
;
; Control characters
char = 0x01(SOH) start of heading
...
char = 0x1F;(US) unit separator
;
; All non-alphanumeric characters, including punctuation,sorted
; by numerical ordering
char = 0x20;( ) space
...
char = 0xF7;division sign
;
; Digits
char = 0x30;(0) digit zero
...
char = 0x39;(9) digit nine
;
; Latin alphabet
char = 0x41,0x61,0xC0,0xE0,0xC1,0xE1,0xC2,0xE2,0xC3,0xE3,0xC4,
0xE4,0xC5,0xE5
; letter A, a, A-grave, a-grave, A-acute, a-acute, A-circumflex,
; a-circumflex, A-tilde, a-tilde, A-diaeresis, a-diaeresis,
; A-ring, a-ring
...
char = 0x5A,0x7A;letter Z,z
;
; Alphabetic characters not used in English, French, German
char = 0xD0,0xF0;Icelandic letter Eth, eth
...
