Alphabetize Arabic and Japanese text that is in Unicode?

Question

Does anyone have any code for alphabetizing Arabic and Japanese text that is in Unicode? If the code was in ruby that would be great.

Answer 1

mylist.sort should work out of the box in Ruby 1.9 (which has built-in unicode support). In Ruby 1.8, where Unicode support isn't built in, I think you'd have to use the character-encodings gem extend the String class with UTF-8 string comparisions. (And then mylist.sort would work.)