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Copyright (c) 2002-2005, International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved. coll: a sample program which compares 2 strings with a user-defined collator.

This sample demonstrates Creating a user-defined collator Comparing 2 string using the collator created

Files: coll.c Main source file coll.sln Windows MSVC workspace. Double-click this to get started. coll.vcproj Windows MSVC project file

To Build coll on Windows 1. Install and build ICU 2. In MSVC, open the workspace file icu\samples\coll\coll.sln 3. Choose a Debug or Release build. 4. Build.

To Run on Windows 1. Start a command shell window 2. Add ICU's bin directory to the path, e.g. set PATH=c:\icu\bin;%PATH% (Use the path to where ever ICU is on your system.) 3. cd into the coll directory, e.g. cd c:\icu\source\samples\coll\debug 4. Run it coll [options*] -source source_string -target target_string

To Build on Unixes 1. Build ICU. coll is built automatically by default unless samples are turned off. Specify an ICU install directory when running configure, using the --prefix option. The steps to build ICU will look something like this: cd /source runConfigureICU --prefix [other options] gmake all

2.  Install ICU, 
       gmake install

To Run on Unixes cd /source/samples/coll

       gmake check
           -or- 

       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<icu install directory>/lib:.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
       cal

Note: The name of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is different on some systems. If in doubt, run the sample using "gmake check", and note the name of the variable that is used there. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the correct name for Linux and Solaris.