[cifs-protocol] 116011913598783 Active Directory server sort Unicode normalization

Sreekanth Nadendla srenaden at microsoft.com
Tue Jan 19 01:20:55 UTC 2016


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Hello Douglas,
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Sreekanth Nadendla
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-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Bagnall [mailto:douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz] 
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 4:05 PM
To: Interoperability Documentation Help <dochelp at microsoft.com>
Cc: cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org
Subject: Active Directory server sort Unicode normalization

hi Dochelp,

I am trying to improve server sort for Samba. Is there anywhere a machine readable version of the file "Active Directory Sort Table v02.pdf" from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1175
and if so, is there a license for its use?

I'm thinking of something akin to the text files in http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10921.
Alternatively, is one of these more or less the same as the PDF (which
*looks* to be the case)? And how are these licensed?

Or, is there somewhere a description of how to derive these tables from the Unicode documents?

Another question: does Active Directory have any way of sorting characters outside the basic multilingual plane? Following RFC4518, the character "๐Ÿ…Œ" ("SQUARED SD" https://codepoints.net/U+1F14C) would be NFKC normalized and sort equivalently to "SD", but I can't see how Windows would deal with that.

In general it looks like Windows *almost* follows the RFC, but retains a bit of low precedence information in the case weight field (distinguishing e.g. the plain digit 1 from the superscript digit ยน) that would be lost to strict NFKC normalization. And it stops at 0xFFFF. Is that a fair summary?

thanks,
Douglas


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