Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site diku.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!diku!kimcm From: kimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.text Subject: Re: about diacritical marks (danish dynamite) Message-ID: <1117@diku.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:14:46 EDT Article-I.D.: diku.1117 Posted: Fri Aug 9 16:14:46 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 04:46:07 EDT References: <1065@diku.UUCP> <763@mcvax.UUCP> <1070@diku.UUCP> <775@mcvax.UUCP> <1087@diku.UUCP><642@kvvax4.UUCP> Reply-To: kimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen) Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK Lines: 19 Xref: linus net.nlang:3166 net.text:489 In article <642@kvvax4.UUCP> esa@kvvax4.UUCP (Esa K Viitala) writes: >In Norwegian the ordering is the same as in Danish: > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V (W) X Y Z AE /O oA >but Norwegians treat double A (or double a) as oA (oa), which >causes some additional problems to the sorting algorithm. (Maybe >the Danes do it, too?) For instance the phone book lists surnames >beginning with double A (Aa) together with names beginning with >the *letter* oA. I.e. a name, say, 'Aasmundsen' will be listed >after a name 'oAgren', but 'Aasmundsen' will be before >'oAsmundsen' and, of course 'Asmundsen' will be listed in the >beginning of the book, under A. Got it? :-) :-). We danes also, orders the the double A as oA, in fact in the old days the letter oA didn't exist in the danish alphabet, but I think it was officially introduced as a result of a writting reform in 1948. Regards Kim Chr. Madsen a.k.a. kimcm@diku.uucp