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- From: maf@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Forssen)
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- Subject: Re: Let's develop ISO sorting rules
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:45:46 GMT
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- unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
- >flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
- >>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.
- >This would be really bad news, could someone from Sweden coment on this?
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- I'm afraid a lot of Swedes will refuse to accept any sorting order which
- places aring and adiaeresis adjacent to a. In swedish these are completely
- different characters and aring and adiaeresis comes after z. All of this
- IMHO of course.
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- I think it would be great if one could design a single sorting order based
- on character positions, but IMHO this is impossible. There is a too great
- mass of people out there who won't change... I think we will have to define
- some sort of list which defines the local sorting order.
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- /MaF
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- Martin Forssen: maf@dtek.chalmers.se or maf@math.chalmers.se
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