Re: indexing of various langauges

From: Mark Davis (mark_davis@taligent.com)
Date: Mon Jul 28 1997 - 12:32:02 EDT


Yes, any of the large scripts (Han, Hangul, + future).

Gary Grosso wrote:

> This is not strictly on the topic of Unicode, but many on this list
> are
> knowledgeable about editing/typography of many of the worlds
> languages.
> Also, I would be happy to get pointers to other sources.
>
> My question is this: for reasons of streamlining our implementation,
> we
> would like to limit the number of primary sort characters to 255.
> Does
> anyone knows of any language where the generally accepted indexing
> practice
> would have more that 255 distinct primary weights, or index groupings?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
>
> Gary Grosso
> ArborText, Inc.
> Ann Arbor MI, USA
> gpg@arbortext.com





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