> Actually, in the case of the 10 EU languages being referred to, I do not
> think there would be any dissention as to the order, would there be?
> Admittedly if Lithuania was in the EU and there were countries that
started
> with a "Y" there as well, there would be problems with people who did not
> understand the order and thought that the "Y" countries were jumping ..
I admit to nitpicking because in this particular case, the language names,
we may be just lucky so that there are no collation conflicts.
But believing that there is a collation order that works across all the
European
(Latin script, let's not even go to Cyrillic and Greek) languages is a very
hopeless
fallacy: the things conflicting are the 'accented' characters (like
a-diaereses
and o-diaereses in German versus in Swedish/Finnish), and special
'ligature'-like
cases like the 'll' and 'ch' of Spanish, and pairs like v/w and i/j being
sorted
"to the same place", and so on.
(Has somebody written a comprehensive collection of all these collation
problems?)
And, in future, Lithuania may be a member in the EU. (Where *do* they sort
'Y',
by the way?)
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>
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