Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site zuring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!zuring!dik From: dik@zuring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Alphabetical Order Message-ID: <251@zuring.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:31:21 EST Article-I.D.: zuring.251 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:31:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 07:26:31 EST References: <125100001@ima.UUCP> <2435@sunybcs.UUCP> Reply-To: dik@zuring.UUCP (Dik T. Winter) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 24 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL In article <2435@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: >How about equivalence? A language might interfile "x" with "j", for >instance. The Dutch interfile "y" and the digraph "ij". > Not entirely true; there are three sorting orders in use for "ij": 1. Dictionary order: sort amongst i. 2. Encyclopaedical order: sort as a different letter (also different from y). 3. Most general: sort as equivalent to y. >(Or do they? Can anybody think of a Dutch word in which "ij" is >_not_ equivalent to "y"?) Yes (although the words that come to my mind are not of dutch origin): bijouterie (from french of course): i and j do not form a digraph here but are two distinctive letters. >-- >Col. G. L. Sicherman Sorting is however not such a problem: just write appropriate filters that prepend the objects to be sorted with a key etc. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland UUCP: {seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!dik