Do I understand correctly that the suppressContractions line in the root search collation has no effect on which comparisons have "equal" as the result and it is only a performance optimization that has some search-irrelevant effects on greater-than vs. less-than results?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:32 AM Henri Sivonen <hsiv...@mozilla.com> wrote:Do I understand correctly that the suppressContractions line in the root search collation has no effect on which comparisons have "equal" as the result and it is only a performance optimization that has some search-irrelevant effects on greater-than vs. less-than results?The characters whose root contractions are suppressed are the ones with the Logical_Order_Exception property, that is, vowels that are written before their consonants but are pronounced after.The root contractions make vowel+consonant sort like consonant+vowel, for combinations that occur in normal text.
For search, it's better to work visually, for which you need to undo the contractions.