Patent ID: 8549023

Claim:
A method for resorting a sequence of sorted strings, comprising: obtaining the sequence of sorted strings by sorting a plurality of strings based on a first character collation standard; comparing the first character collation standard with a second character collation standard to perform: identifying a change of the character collation standard between the first and second collation standards, wherein the second character collation standard is different from the first character collation standard, and wherein the change of the character collation standard is a change of an adjacent position relation for each of at least two characters, identifying at least two unchanged characters in each of the first and second collation standards, wherein the adjacent position for each of the at least two unchanged characters does not change, and combining the least two unchanged characters to form a new character; forming a changed character collation standard from the at least two characters and the new character; and resorting the sequence of sorted strings based on the changed character collation standard, wherein the sequence of sorted strings is obtained using a classed string comparison using an Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA).