Dear Frank, here is a C# piece of code which sorts the Pali

http://www.nibbanam.com/pali_language_tools.html#IComparer

maybe helpful?

metta,
L.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:29 PM, frank <fcckuan@...> wrote:

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> I found a piece of perl code for sorting unicode utf-8 format text. I
> adapted it slightly for pali unicode.
> I ran it on Ven. BKh's list, and it seems to be working as intended, but
> I have a couple of questions.
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> I used the pali alphabetical order from wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali
> The Pali alphabetical order is as follows:
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> * a ā i ī u ū e o ṁ k kh g gh ṅ c ch j jh ñ ṭ ṭh ḍ ḍh ṇ t th d dh n p ph
> b bh m y r l ḷ v s h
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> 1) I'm puzzled by "ṁ". Is that the same as "ṃ"?
> 2) For the code that does the alphabetizing, I removed all the pali
> alphabet characters represented by double characters ending in "h". That
> is I removed kh, gh, jh, etc. Since single "h" comes at the end of the
> list, I believe things should sort correctly just by comparing one
> character at a time.
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> -Frank
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