> From: David Starner [mailto:dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Thierry Sourbier wrote:
> > The only little thing to know about French and diacritical
> mark is that when
> > doing a sort diacritical mark are evaluated from right to
> left. (e.g.
> > "cote" < "côte" < "coté" vs the English order "cote" <
> "coté" < "côte" ).
>
> I'm not sure there is an established English sort order. It's not a
> problem that comes up much in English.
I believe that there is an established sort order in English, which
is to sort without regard to diacritics, or else we'd never find the words!
In English (American English more than British English), diacritics are
considered optional, and it is common to see "naїve" written "naive", "San
José" written "San Jose", etc. Especially amongst Americans, the two are
considered equivalent, and I know of no word pair in all of English which is
separated only by a diacritic.
/|/|ike
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