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From: pete@kvvax4.UUCP (Peter J Story)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: International Unix
Message-ID: <156@kvvax4.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 07:01:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 07:01:48 1985
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Reply-To: pete@kvvax4.UUCP (Peter J Story)
Organization: Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk A/S, Kongsberg, Norway
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In article <> sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) writes:
  >that in some language, the order of the letters might be "a b c ...",
  >whereas in some other language, the order might be "a c b ..."?
  >What pair of languages is like this? 
Norwegian, Swedish which have three extra characters which you can't
represent on your terminal but on mine use the ASCII positions {|}
depending on the language.  In Norwegian it is as given above.  Swedish is
}{|.  And then there are Danish and Finnish, which I don't know offhand.

  >Also, in which language is some single character considered as two
How about the German character that looks like a beta, which is "ss" in the
nearest transliteration.  Or u with an umlaut diacritical mark, which at
least in some historical texts must sort as if it were ue.  Unless someone
in Germany corrects my too old knowledge.
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