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- From: bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson)
- Subject: Re: Let's develop ISO sorting rules
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.004224.11765@lth.se>
- Sender: news@lth.se
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- References: <1993Jan5.222627.29561@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1iev27EINNmc4@uni-erlangen.de> <maf.726345946@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:42:24 GMT
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- In article <maf.726345946@dtek.chalmers.se> maf@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Forssen) writes:
- >unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
- >>>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?
- >
- > 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.
-
- No IMHO needed. This is definitely not acceptable for swedish.
- "v" and "w" are commonly sorted together, however.
-
- > I think it would be great if one could design a single sorting order based
- > on character positions, but IMHO this is impossible.
-
- Oh yes, clearly.
-
- >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.
-
- Sorting orders are notoriously complicated anyway, if you want to get
- it really "right".
-
- --
- Bengt Larsson - bengtl@maths.lth.se
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