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- From: melby@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: International character sets
- Message-ID: <MELBY.92Sep4024546@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 02:45:46 GMT
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- Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp
- Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 1, FUJITSU LTD.
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- In-reply-to: andrew@cursci.co.uk's message of 4 Sep 92 02:42:38 JST
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- >what I really want is a full description of either a 16-bit or
- >32-bit character sequences that will include all the roman chars and their
- >accented chars in a sequence that I can sort on.
-
- Keep in mind that sorting methods are locale/implementation-dependent.
- For example, an English-based sorting system will put Angstrom (with an
- A-ring) before Zyzzyva, but a Swedish-based sorting system will put them
- in the opposite order (since A-ring comes after Z). To give a slightly
- trickier example, a Spanish-based sorting system will put "llama" after
- "LZH," because "ll" is a separate letter which comes between "l" and "m."
-
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- John B. Melby
- Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
- melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@fai.com
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