Re: DIN 5007, Swiss Sorting

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 08:44:28 EST


Ar 17:06 -0800 2000-03-12, scríobh Markus Kuhn:

>Again: if you argue for A < a versus a < A, then please explain me why
>one is better than the other, and please do so independent of existing
>practice.

Easily done: I provided the following discussion document in 1996:
http://www.egt.ie/standards/capsmall.html

The only counter argument I've seen is that "smalls are more general" so
they should come first, which doesn't make sense to me. One fronts things
to emphasize them.

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