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From: kimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen)
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Subject: Re: about diacritical marks (danish dynamite)
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:14:46 EDT
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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