From: Erkki Kolehmainen (erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 06:06:48 CST
In fact,
Svenska Akademien has now decided (in a broadly participated meeting on
March 1, 2005) that v and w will be sorted separately, as distinct
characters. The change will be implemented already in SAOL 13. Several
other parties have indicated that they'll follow suit.
Regards, Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Hans Aberg wrote:
> At 14:23 +0300 2005/04/26, Erkki Kolehmainen wrote:
>
>> in Swedish the letters å (a with ring above), ä (a with diaeresis) and
>> ö (o with diaeresis) collate as separate letters after z in level 1.
>
>
> In German, I recall (correct me if I am wrong) that ä is sorted the same
> as a, except that ä is put later if the words are otherwise identical. Thus
> lab läb lac
> If ä would have been treated as a separate character in lexicographical
> order, the sorting would have been:
> lab lac läb
> The Swedish alphabet does not really have w, but it is sorted as though
> equal to v, in a similar fashion:
> avk awk avl
> In English, where v and w are sorted as distinct characters, one gets:
> avk avl awk
>
> This just illustrates how difficult it is to properly pin down the
> notion of a character, as it may vary with the context.
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