Re: If X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before YZ ... example of where that's not true?

There are many cases of such digraphs.

Example from Slovak:

c < d < h
but
cd < h < ch

Cf http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/, searching for Slovak.

Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033>
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On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello_at_mitre.org>wrote:

> Hi Folks,
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> In the book, Unicode Demystified (p. xxii) it says:
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> An English-speaking programmer might assume,
> for example, that given the three characters X, Y,
> and Z, that if X sorts before Y, then XZ sorts before
> YZ. This works for English, but fails for many
> languages.
>
> Would you give an example of where character 1 sorts before character 2
> but character 1, character 3 does not sort before character 2, character 3?
>
> /Roger
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Received on Sun Jan 06 2013 - 18:02:55 CST