XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition (535 page)
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Authors: Michael Kay
, but not (and here's the surprise) when it is
co
.
I've written
garc,on
to illustrate that thecand the cedilla are two separate Unicode codepoints. But of course the cedilla is actually a nonspacing character, so in real life this string of seven codepoints would appear on the page asgar
ç
on.
Java could instead have standardized on the composed form of the character, but the accent-blind matching would then not work:contains(“gar
ç
on”, “c”)would be false.
Now let's look at a case where a pair of characters represents a single collation unit. Here we turn back to Spanish, where in older publicationschcollates aftercandllcollates afterl. We can set this up in Java by defining a
RuleBaseCollator
using a rule that definesc
<
ch
<
dandl
<
ll
<
m. (Modern Spanish practice follows the English collating rules, so I had to set up these rules myself.)