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

On 07/01/2013, Costello, Roger L. <costello_at_mitre.org> wrote:
> 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

Look at the collation for Dzongkha or Tibetan:

http://developer.mimer.com/charts/dzongkha.htm

http://developer.mimer.com/charts/tibetan.htm
Received on Mon Jan 07 2013 - 03:24:15 CST