Asmus Freytag wrote:
> But if you do this, all compound words starting with "data"
> and continuing
> with another word starting with "a" will be sorted incorrectly!
>
> To achieve this effect, you would have to mark which AAs are
> A-Rings and which ones are accidental adjacencies. In Danish
> one can use the SHY (soft hyphen) [...]
Real-life sort orders often ignore these subtleties and are often based on a
small set of rules which is applied blindly, regardless of the origin,
meaning, or pronunciation of headwords.
For instance, I have noticed that Dutch telephone directories always sort
the sequence "ij" as if it was "y", regardless that it actually occurs in a
Dutch word. E.g., Beijing Chinese Restaurant would be listed after Mr. Bex.
Similarly, old Italian encyclopedias (e.g. Dizionario Enciclopedico Teccani)
equated "j" to "i" because, in Italian, the former is just a graphic variant
of the latter. But this also applied to foreign name such as "Jefferson"
(which was listed between "iee-" and "ieg-"), regardless that, of course, it
would not be allowed to spell "Iefferson".
_ Marco
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