On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:09:28AM +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Asmus Freytag wrote:
> > But if you do this, all compound words starting with "data"
> > and continuing
> > with another word starting with "a" will be sorted incorrectly!
> >
> > To achieve this effect, you would have to mark which AAs are
> > A-Rings and which ones are accidental adjacencies. In Danish
> > one can use the SHY (soft hyphen) [...]
>
> Real-life sort orders often ignore these subtleties and are often based on a
> small set of rules which is applied blindly, regardless of the origin,
> meaning, or pronunciation of headwords.
>
Real-life sorts, like MS Windows sorting or Linux sorting, actually adheres
to these Danish rules, once you have set up your machine for Danish.
Kind regards
Keld
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