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- From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Let's develop ISO sorting rules
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:21:04 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- maf@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Forssen) writes:
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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.
-
- Isn't the Swedish convention to sort a-ring after z just as arbitrarily
- as the confusing old convention to sort a-diaresis in Germany as ae?
-
- There are at least a few real world applications (I don't talk about
- trivialities like UNIX ls), e.g. catalogs of international libraries,
- where an _easy_ to understand language independend sorting standard would
- be extremely useful. Why not standardize one for Unicode in an easy
- _implementable_ way? Then let's see, how many people will adopt it and
- will quickly forget their traditional rules. Perhaps even many users
- in Sweden. There are perhaps already some multilingual sorting rules
- common practice, but I know no one that defines an easy implementable
- deterministic and total ordering for ISO 10646 strings.
-
- I don't suggest to remove all locale mechanisms, but just to offer one
- simple, efficient, easy to understand modern 'international locale' for people
- who don't stick to their national locales and who have serious problems
- with multiple different locales.
-
- Markus
-
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