In a message dated 2001-09-07 17:19:49 Pacific Daylight Time,
cbrown@xnetinc.com writes:
> You are quite correct that is why Unicode support differing collation
> strengths. Some times you only care about the actual letters without
> diacritics. But even then letters are locale sensitive. For example the
> Danish alphabet starts with an A and ends it with A ring above. A Dane
> would look for Alborg near the end of a list of towns. It is like having
> the Spanish ch follow cz.
That would be Ålborg, right?
I hasten to add that Carl's Spanish example is for the so-called "traditional
sort," in contrast to the "modern sort" in which "ch" sorts simply as "c"
followed by "h". In many Spanish-speaking communities, particularly here in
Alta California, the simplified "modern" sort is by far the more common of
the two.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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