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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: Let's develop ISO sorting rules
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.150305.755@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <8496@charon.cwi.nl> <C0Cuz5.2wy@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <1ibmdcEINNooe@uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:03:05 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
- >THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE ONCE YOU ACCEPTED THAT INCOMPATIBILITY WITH
- >EXISTING HISTORICAL RULES IS NECESSARY!
-
- I don't accept it. Computers have to change to please users, not the
- other way around.
-
- There is no sorting order that will satisfy everybody. Thus it is not
- a good idea to embed one into the character set and make everybody use
- it.
-
- I have had no problem sorting strings in character sets where the
- order of the letters is not the same as the order in my alphabet.
- (I'm not claiming that it is trivial in all languages, though, but as
- far as I can see, it is more or less trivial for all languages that I
- know.)
-
- My humble, uninformed opinion, of course.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-