On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:27:07AM -0500, Tex Texin wrote:
> I gave a course in internationalization last week, and one of the slides
> I used indicated that in Norwegian u-umlaut sorts with Y between X and
> Z. Some Norwegians attending disputed this. I see this is referenced
> elsewhere as well and is claimed to be true for the other Scandanavian
> languages also.
>
> I scanned a couple dictionaries and couldn't find a use of u-umlaut.
>
> a) Is it true or not that u-umlaut would sort with y, in Scandanavian
> languages?
For Norwegian, yes. This fact is recorded with the ISO cultural register,
ans the info is available at
http://std.dkuug.dk/cultreg/registrations/narrative/nb_NO,_4.5
It is also true for Danish, Swedish and Finnish according to the same
registry.
Kind regards
keld Simonsen
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