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- From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
- Subject: Re: Let's develop ISO sorting rules
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.222627.29561@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 03:26:27 GMT
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- unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
- >Believe me, German users who know what they are talking about won't
- >complan if "a, "o and "u are not sorted as ae, oe and ue.
-
- I believe you. I'm sure that the analogous statement is true for French. But
- I'm almost as sure that Swedish readers won't want "a-circle" to be anywhere
- near "a". I think your flexibility on this is a language-relative phenomenon.
-
- >Sorting all latin characters directly behind their version without a diacritic
- >will be accepted by 99.9% of people using latin alphabets,
-
- Let's hear from more Scandinavians on this.. and where would you put the Danish
- o-with-a-slash-through-it? Surely that slash isn't a diacritical mark...
-
- I think that your statement from a later article,
-
- >Word lists produced by my algorithm are pretty easy to scan for human eyes.
-
- is language-relative as well. If people are used to thinking of a-circle as
- being at the end of the alphabet, it may become a different letter. For all I
- know they think of it as a circle with an "a" as a diacritical mark rather than
- the other way around.
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- ajr
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- "quote"
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