Doug,
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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of DougEwell2@cs.com
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:52 PM
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Cc: cbrown@xnetinc.com
> Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex
>
>
> 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?
That is right. I am concerned that not everyone can view special
characters. I think that having an alphabet that goes for A to Å must be
due to the Danish sense of humor.
I also did not use the ? in ?stanbul.
>
> 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.
>
Again correct they also use the modern sort here in Muy Alta California as
well as most of the Spanish speaking world.
There also is the differences between ASCII and EBCDIC sorting. Talk about
people who are worlds apart. ;-}
Carl W. Brown
Lafayette, CA
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