Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kvvax4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!kvvax4!pete 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 Article-I.D.: kvvax4.156 Posted: Fri Nov 1 07:01:48 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 01:46:04 EST References: <2400@brl-tgr.ARPA> <> Reply-To: pete@kvvax4.UUCP (Peter J Story) Organization: Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk A/S, Kongsberg, Norway Lines: 18 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. -- Pete Story {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!kvport!kvvax4!pete A/S Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, PO Box 25, N3601 Kongsberg, Norway Tel: + 47 3 739644 Tlx: 71491 vaapn n