RFC 4790:Internet Application Protocol Collation R...
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... of a particular comparison operation can be specified by someone with appropriate expertise, independent of the application protocols that use that collation. This is similar to the way a charset [13 ...
... Thus IMAP, ACAP, and future application protocols with international search capability simply specify how to interface ...


... prefix and suffix matching, if those special cases are supported by the application protocol. It returns "match" or "no-match" when it is supplied valid input and returns "undefined" when supplied invalid input ...
... invalid input. Application protocols MAY return position information for substring matches. If this is done, the position information SHOULD include ...
... lookup table in a documented format MUST assign numbers to the tables they use. This permits an application protocol command to access the tables used by a server collation, so that clients and servers use ...


... Application Protocol Requirements ...
... This section describes the requirements and issues that an application protocol needs to consider if it offers searching, substring matching and/or sorting, and permits the use of characters ...


... used collations prior to the creation of this specification and registry. Those standards do not meet all the application protocol requirements described in Section 5. ...



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