collation tables

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil at tpgi.com.au> wrote:

> Given that simply calling whatever the locale functions are on windows and 
> using their results is considered too legally risky (because the results 
> are almost certainly covered under a MS copyright), the best solution is to 
> simply take the best possible implementation we have now then build a 
> testcase. Build a testcase that calls the locale functions and checks that 
> the output matches. From there, you can fix WINE untill it passes the tests.
> 
> This is how it is done for most other things in WINE, so why not this?

Look at the dlls/kernel/tests/locale.c,test_CompareStringA/test_LCMapStringA

> Another way is to look at what ReactOS has, do they have collation tables? 
> Are they good? Can WINE use them? (I would assume they would need to be 
> relicenced but other than that...)

I don't think ReactOS has anything except .nls and case mapping files
generated with the tool I wrote. Even those files aren't used AFAIK.

-- 
Dmitry.