[sword-devel] imp2ld and alphabetization

Frank fchimes at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Oct 28 18:13:43 MST 2007


peter wrote:
> Is this really only a Vietnamese problem, but will not all latinate
> scripts with extra signs have exactly the same problem?
>
> Or actually all scripts which are treated as derrived scripts - Farsi,
> urdu and Malay from Arabic, Tajik, Uzbek, Azeri from Russian etc - the
> code points are initially for the "main" characters and then there is a
> always bunch of extra characters which are used only in one or other
> language.
>
> But maybe I am just showing my ignorance here. I need to look at some
> dictionaries - never had any installed.
Any language that uses letters outside the ASCII range will be affected 
unless the collate the letter after "z"... and if it's strictly in 
Unicode point order, then all upper case will collate before lower case...

-- 
Blessings

Frank




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