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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
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 10:31:21 1985
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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
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