Re: [OT] o-circumflex

From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 13:43:54 EDT

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
To: "'John Wilcock'" <john@tradoc.fr>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: den 10 september 2001 18:35
Subject: RE: [OT] o-circumflex

> John Wilcock wrote:
> > I haven't followed this discussion from the beginning, so apologies if
> > I'm missing the point, but it seems to me that the Beijing case in
> > Dutch is no different from the ekstraarbejde case in Danish - a SHY or
> > ZWNJ is all that is needed to stop Beijing sorting with Bey.
>
> Yes, it is exactly the same thing.
>
> But my point is that a Dutch reader probably *does* expect Beijing to sort
> like Bey, not like Bei. So, in some cases, a "correct" (i.e., expected)
> behavior could rather be to *remove* all SHY/ZWNJ's before sorting.

I thought "ĳ" sorted after "z?"

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