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

Roger,
one way to get an answer to your question is to do the following: open
page 440 of Richard Gillam’s book from which you are citing and read the
chapter /Contracting character sequences./
HTH,
Charlie

* Costello, Roger L. <costello_at_mitre.org> [2013-01-06 22:56]:
> Hi Folks,
>
> In the book, Unicode Demystified (p. xxii) it says:
>
> 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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