Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 + RN 4.3; site inset.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!inset!mikeb From: mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Alphabetical Order Message-ID: <787@inset.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 07:26:01 EST Article-I.D.: inset.787 Posted: Wed Nov 6 07:26:01 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 04:58:51 EST References: <125100001@ima.UUCP> <2435@sunybcs.UUCP> Reply-To: mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) Organization: The Instruction Set Ltd., London, UK. Lines: 17 Xpath: stc stc-a 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". > >(Or do they? Can anybody think of a Dutch word in which "ij" is >_not_ equivalent to "y"?) I'm sure the Dutch will tell you. Just to add that in Norwegian orthography "aa" is an alternative for the a with a circle on top. They are identical for all purposes. You might care to ponder languages where lower case letters have no upper case equivalent and vice versa, into the bargain. -- Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd. mcvax!ukc!inset!mikeb