Collation

Add collation tailoring syntax for compact lists of characters with same level strength difference

Adding the following operators to the collation tailoring syntax:

"&a<b<c<d"

can be expressed as

"&a<*bcd"

assuming the elements are not contractions. This is analogous to CLDR's <pc> tag, one of the Abbreviating Ordering Specifications in the LDML spec. "<*", "<<*", "<<<*", and "=*" will all be supported, corresponding to <pc>, <tc>, <sc> and <ic> respectively.

See ICU ticket #7015.

This is related to the ideas for reducing the size of collation resource bundles.

Add [import] option to collation tailoring syntax

Allow collation rule strings to import other collation rule strings via an [import] option. This will be useful for maintenance and size purposes, especially for the European Ordering Rules and Unihan. For all practical purposes, the imported string would directly replace the [import] in the original rules string.

[import de-u-co-phonebk] could be used to import a specific collation, or just [import de] to import the standard one for the language.

See ICU ticket #7023.

See also CLDR bug 2268 and the CLDR design doc for proposed collation additions.

This is related to the ideas for reducing the size of collation resource bundles.

Script reordering

Moved to Script Reordering.