Collator support

[Miles T.]

Hi,

Are there plans to support the java.text.Collator class in GWT ? That
would be very useful to sort Strings using locale rules.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

[Akiim]

I hope anyone will find a solution !
Collator equivalent in GWT is missing !

Thanks,
Cheers

[nicolas.deloof]

I've searched an Apache compatible implementation to add such support
in gwtx, but didn't find one. Apache Harmony is delegating to icu4j
that requires many more classes to be ported.

[nicolas.deloof]

For information I made some test on using the javascript
String.localeCompare() method to handle this.
My need is that as a French guy I need "état" to be sorted before
"civil". java.text.Collator is needed to do this in Java but I don't
need all this class features.
I've used this :

public class Collator {

public static final Collator getInstance() {
return instance;
}

private static final Collator instance = new Collator();

public native int compare( String source, String target ); /*-{
return source.localeCompare( target );
}-*/
}

This works on IE (I don't need multi-browser support for my current
app), but this method also exists on Firefox > 2 and Webkit AFAIK. Not
sure it behaves the same way on other browsers.

Hope this helps

[Miles T.]

That is also all I need and it works well. Thank you very much !