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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: Let's develop ISO sorting rules
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.192239.8089@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1ibmdcEINNooe@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Jan5.150305.755@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1icgidEINN4v3@uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:22:39 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
- >No, the answer that NO internationally suitable sorting algorithm (not
- >only sorted character table!) is possible is too simple in my eyes.
-
- And making everybody use the same sorting order is not workable in my
- eyes. The English words co-ordinate and co-"ordinate ("o = o with two
- dots on top; this is quite correct English) should be sorted together,
- but the Swedish words ost (cheese) and "ost (East) should not. In the
- former case, o and "o are the same letter and that's why they should
- be kept together, in the latter case they are very, very distinct
- letters with only a happenstance similarity in the way they look, and
- mixing them is not going to be accepted by more than perhaps one or
- two users (and those are probably programmers :).
-
- While it is true that users to have to change when they use computers,
- the sorting order is not one of the cases where they will do it.
- Actually, if I were willing to change the order of the alphabet to
- suit computers, I'd just as soon make everybody start using a common
- language (English, Esperanto, or whatever), and make the whole
- problem i18n disappear.
-
- I18n seems to be a fun topic: any rational-sounding solution that
- looks ideal from an engineering and programming standpoint gets
- shouted down by a pack of change-unfriendly users. :-)
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-