[icu-design] CLDR/ICU proposal: collation rules for import only

[Richard Wordingham]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 16:19:37 -0700
"Steven R. Loomis" <srl at icu-project.org> wrote:

> On 01/05/14 16:10, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:01:40 -0700
> > Markus Scherer <markus.icu at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> >> which in ICU would turn into
> >>     [import ja-u-co-private-kana]

> > I've been struggling to follow this, but should the key word be
> > 'partial' or 'component' rather than 'private'.  There's nothing
> > private about the rules one intends to share.

> But these aren't shared with 'real users'. You don't sit in front of a
> CLDR-compliant machine and get "ja-u-co-private-kana" in your pop-up
> list of collators.  It's an implementation detail of other collators.

I was thinking more along the lines of asking for something like
de-u-co-rl-akk-private-assyrlog to get Latin script sorted by German
rules and cuneiform by Assyriological order, but I see there is nothing
like a key 'rl' to import a set of collation rules.

Richard.