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NAME
       Unicode::Collate::Locale - Linguistic tailoring for DUCET via
       Unicode::Collate
SYNOPSIS
         use Unicode::Collate::Locale;
         #construct
         $Collator = Unicode::Collate::Locale->
             new(locale => $locale_name, %tailoring);
         #sort
         @sorted = $Collator->sort(@not_sorted);
         #compare
         $result = $Collator->cmp($a, $b); # returns 1, 0, or -1.
       Note: Strings in @not_sorted, $a and $b are interpreted according to
       Perl's Unicode support. See perlunicode, perluniintro, perlunitut,
       perlunifaq, utf8.  Otherwise you can use "preprocess" (cf.
       "Unicode::Collate") or should decode them before.
DESCRIPTION
       This module provides linguistic tailoring for it taking advantage of
       "Unicode::Collate".
   Constructor
       The "new" method returns a collator object.
       A parameter list for the constructor is a hash, which can include a
       special key "locale" and its value (case-insensitive) standing for a
       Unicode base language code (two or three-letter).  For example,
       "Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(locale => 'FR')" returns a collator
       tailored for French.
       $locale_name may be suffixed with a Unicode script code (four-letter),
       a Unicode region code, a Unicode language variant code. These codes are
       case-insensitive, and separated with '_' or '-'.  E.g. "en_US" for
       English in USA, "az_Cyrl" for Azerbaijani in the Cyrillic script,
       "es_ES_traditional" for Spanish in Spain (Traditional).
       If $locale_name is not available, fallback is selected in the following
       order:
           1. language with a variant code
           2. language with a script code
           3. language with a region code
           4. language
           5. default
       Tailoring tags provided by "Unicode::Collate" are allowed as long as
       they are not used for "locale" support.  Esp. the "table" tag is always
       untailorable, since it is reserved for DUCET.
       E.g. a collator for French, which ignores diacritics and case
       difference (i.e. level 1), with reversed case ordering and no
       normalization.
           Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(
               level => 1,
               locale => 'fr',
               upper_before_lower => 1,
               normalization => undef
           )
       Overriding a behavior already tailored by "locale" is disallowed if
       such a tailoring is passed to "new()".
           Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(
               locale => 'da',
               upper_before_lower => 0, # causes error as reserved by 'da'
           )
       However "change()" inherited from "Unicode::Collate" allows such a
       tailoring that is reserved by "locale". Examples:
           new(locale => 'ca')->change(backwards => undef)
           new(locale => 'da')->change(upper_before_lower => 0)
           new(locale => 'ja')->change(overrideCJK => undef)
   Methods
       "Unicode::Collate::Locale" is a subclass of "Unicode::Collate" and
       methods other than "new" are inherited from "Unicode::Collate".
       Here is a list of additional methods:
       "$Collator->getlocale"
           Returns a language code accepted and used actually on collation.
           If linguistic tailoring is not provided for a language code you
           passed (intensionally for some languages, or due to the incomplete
           implementation), this method returns a string 'default' meaning no
           special tailoring.
       "$Collator->locale_version"
           (Since Unicode::Collate::Locale 0.87) Returns the version number
           (perhaps "/\d\.\d\d/") of the locale, as that of Locale/*.pl.
           Note: Locale/*.pl that a collator uses should be identified by a
           combination of return values from "getlocale" and "locale_version".
   A list of tailorable locales
             locale name       description
           --------------------------------------------------------------
             af                Afrikaans
             ar                Arabic
             as                Assamese
             az                Azerbaijani (Azeri)
             be                Belarusian
             bg                Bulgarian
             bn                Bengali
             bs                Bosnian
             ca                Catalan
             cs                Czech
             cy                Welsh
             da                Danish
             de__phonebook     German (umlaut as 'ae', 'oe', 'ue')
             eo                Esperanto
             es                Spanish
             es__traditional   Spanish ('ch' and 'll' as a grapheme)
             et                Estonian
             fa                Persian
             fi                Finnish (v and w are primary equal)
             fi__phonebook     Finnish (v and w as separate characters)
             fil               Filipino
             fo                Faroese
             fr                French
             gu                Gujarati
             ha                Hausa
             haw               Hawaiian
             hi                Hindi
             hr                Croatian
             hu                Hungarian
             hy                Armenian
             ig                Igbo
             is                Icelandic
             ja                Japanese [1]
             kk                Kazakh
             kl                Kalaallisut
             kn                Kannada
             ko                Korean [2]
             kok               Konkani
             ln                Lingala
             lt                Lithuanian
             lv                Latvian
             mk                Macedonian
             ml                Malayalam
             mr                Marathi
             mt                Maltese
             nb                Norwegian Bokmal
             nn                Norwegian Nynorsk
             nso               Northern Sotho
             om                Oromo
             or                Oriya
             pa                Punjabi
             pl                Polish
             ro                Romanian
             ru                Russian
             sa                Sanskrit
             se                Northern Sami
             si                Sinhala
             si__dictionary    Sinhala (U+0DA5 = U+0DA2,0DCA,0DA4)
             sk                Slovak
             sl                Slovenian
             sq                Albanian
             sr                Serbian
             sr_Latn           Serbian in Latin (tailored as Croatian)
             sv                Swedish (v and w are primary equal)
             sv__reformed      Swedish (v and w as separate characters)
             ta                Tamil
             te                Telugu
             th                Thai
             tn                Tswana
             to                Tonga
             tr                Turkish
             uk                Ukrainian
             ur                Urdu
             vi                Vietnamese
             wae               Walser
             wo                Wolof
             yo                Yoruba
             zh                Chinese
             zh__big5han       Chinese (ideographs: big5 order)
             zh__gb2312han     Chinese (ideographs: GB-2312 order)
             zh__pinyin        Chinese (ideographs: pinyin order) [3]
             zh__stroke        Chinese (ideographs: stroke order) [3]
           --------------------------------------------------------------
       Locales according to the default UCA rules include chr (Cherokee), de
       (German), en (English), ga (Irish), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), ka
       (Georgian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pt (Portuguese), st (Southern
       Sotho), sw (Swahili), xh (Xhosa), zu (Zulu).
       Note
       [1] ja: Ideographs are sorted in JIS X 0208 order.  Fullwidth and
       halfwidth forms are identical to their normal form.  The difference
       between hiragana and katakana is at the 4th level, the comparison also
       requires "(variable => 'Non-ignorable')", and then
       "katakana_before_hiragana" has no effect.
       [2] ko: Plenty of ideographs are sorted by their reading. Such an
       ideograph is primary (level 1) equal to, and secondary (level 2)
       greater than, the corresponding hangul syllable.
       [3] zh__pinyin and zh__stroke: implemented alt='short', where a smaller
       number of ideographs are tailored.
INSTALL
       Installation of "Unicode::Collate::Locale" requires Collate/Locale.pm,
       Collate/Locale/*.pm, Collate/CJK/*.pm and Collate/allkeys.txt.  On
       building, "Unicode::Collate::Locale" doesn't require any of data/*.txt,
       gendata/*, and mklocale.  Tests for "Unicode::Collate::Locale" are
       named t/loc_*.t.
CAVEAT
       tailoring is not maximum
           Even if a certain letter is tailored, its equivalent would not
           always tailored as well as it. For example, even though W is
           tailored, fullwidth W ("U+FF37"), W with acute ("U+1E82"), etc. are
           not tailored. The result may depend on whether source strings are
           normalized or not, and whether decomposed or composed.  Thus
           "(normalization => undef)" is less preferred.
AUTHOR
       The Unicode::Collate::Locale module for perl was written by SADAHIRO
       Tomoyuki, <SADAHIRO AT cpan.org>.  This module is Copyright(C) 2004-2012,
       SADAHIRO Tomoyuki. Japan.  All rights reserved.
       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
       Unicode Collation Algorithm - UTS #10
           <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/>;
       The Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET)
           <http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCA/latest/allkeys.txt>;
       Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) - UTS #35
           <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/>;
       CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
           <http://cldr.unicode.org/>;
       Unicode::Collate
       Unicode::Normalize

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