🚀 go-pugleaf

This is just personal curiosity...

A couple of years ago, I went to China on holiday. While there, I looked in a
telephone book, because I was interested in how it would be organised.

It was obviously sorted into some kind of order. The initial characters of each
entry were the same, and the final characters changed from entry to entry.

How is it sorted? What is the collation sequence of the characters? Which
characters are used?

Also, how do they deal with the fact that many people in China have the same
name? (Li?). (I have heard that Greenland telephone directories are sorted by
given name to solve this problem. Is this true?)

Regards,

Hugh.
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