| Utility class for normalizing and merging patterns for collation.
Patterns are strings of the form *, where has the
form:
:= *
:= {"/"}
:= "=", ",", ";", "<", "&"
, and are both arbitrary strings.
unquoted whitespaces are ignored.
'xxx' can be used to quote characters
One difference from Collator is that & is used to reset to a current
point. Or, in other words, it introduces a new sequence which is to
be added to the old.
That is: "a < b < c < d" is the same as "a < b & b < c & c < d" OR
"a < b < d & b < c"
TODO: make '' be a single quote.
See Also: PatternEntry
version:
1.14 01/19/00
author:
Mark Davis, Helena Shih |
