Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-10-20
1998-10-06
Tkacs, Stephen R.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
704 8, G06F 314
Patent
active
058193030
ABSTRACT:
A computer performs designated operations on text that can be in any of a variety of different languages, rather than being restricted to a single language for which the computer was designed. A library stores operators and functions that can act upon character strings. Also stored within the library are sets of rules which identify the casing, ordering and matching of characters within different writing systems, or human languages. When a user of the computer designates a particular operation to be performed with respect to a text string, the writing system associated with the text string is identified. This identification can be made with reference to the typefont that is used to display the text string. Once the writing system for a string has been determined, appropriate tables and data structures that define and encode language rules for that writing system are accessed and applied to the operation on the string. For example, when comparing strings of text, the computer will be instructed whether to compare encodings on the basis of one byte at a time or multiple bytes together.
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Tkacs Stephen R.
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