CollationStrength Enum
Definition
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public enum CollationStrengthtype CollationStrength = - Inheritance
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CollationStrength
Fields
| Name | Value | Description |
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| Primary | 0 | Strongest collator strength value. Typically used to denote differences between base characters. See class documentation for more explanation. Android reference for Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License. |
| Secondary | 1 | Second level collator strength value. Accents in the characters are considered secondary differences. Other differences between letters can also be considered secondary differences, depending on the language. See class documentation for more explanation. Android reference for Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License. |
| Tertiary | 2 | Third level collator strength value. Upper and lower case differences in characters are distinguished at this strength level. In addition, a variant of a letter differs from the base form on the tertiary level. See class documentation for more explanation. Android reference for Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License. |
| Quaternary | 3 | [icu] Fourth level collator strength value. When punctuation is ignored (see Ignoring Punctuation in the User Guide ) at PRIMARY to TERTIARY strength, an additional strength level can be used to distinguish words with and without punctuation. See class documentation for more explanation. Android reference for Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License. |
| Identical | 15 | Smallest Collator strength value. When all other strengths are equal, the IDENTICAL strength is used as a tiebreaker. The Unicode code point values of the NFD form of each string are compared, just in case there is no difference. See class documentation for more explanation. Android reference for Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License. |
Remarks
Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.