Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Alphabetical Order Message-ID: <2435@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 16:30:00 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2435 Posted: Sat Nov 2 16:30:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:10:25 EST References: <125100001@ima.UUCP> Organization: Save the Dodoes Foundation Lines: 22 ["You saved my life, Captain Buffalo! Have a CIGAR!"] > Here, as I understand it, are some of the problems involved: > > -- Character set. ... > -- Upper vs. lower case. ... > -- Digraphs. Many languages have character pairs which, for the purpose > of alphabetization, are treated as one letter, such as Spanish "ll". > -- Alphabet order. ... > > Anything else important I've left out? 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"?) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva