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In article <la5apvINN8kb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.184726.1583@mits.mdata.fi> kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
>>>and if so how are the ordered?
>>
>>You know, it'd be interesting to find any intelligent order for
>>the entire extended IBM ASCII character set... The characters
>>seem to be organized by groups of 32's, but there are still
>>some very strange symbols among the accented characters, and
>>you can't even dream of finding some sort of organization 
>>inside these groups. (I wonder why they included only some
>>characters of the Greek alphabet etc...)
>
>Go look at IBM's EBCDIC character set (where, for example, '~' comes
>between 'r' and 's') and ask yourself if you'd dream of finding some
>sort of organization in their extended IBM ASCII character set.
>
>		-ed falk, sun microsystems
>		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
>	"Towards the end, the smell of their air began to change"

There is a "natural" method of sorting according to which language
(i.e. French, not Basic :-)  ).  DOS sort in recent versions takes care
of that.  The method is quite simple (no idea if they do that, but I
do that in my own qsort-based psort program) : if under 0x80, keep it
as is (lowercase or lowercase if needed), if over, using a table lookup,
remap the character.  Obviously, it is a bit faster if you use a 256
characters table instead of a 128 entries with checking for 8th bit.
In my program, I duplicate the sort key (I use a 8000 line table with
one pointer to original line and possibly extended memory address, and
onepointer to re-coded line [I have a lot of re-coding schemes] ).

In your case, only use I see for giving a logical order is for sorting.
Otherwise, you could use a table to re-code.

There is a lot of standards.  EBCDIC is available on many FTP site
if you transfer text files using BINARY more.  ASCII is standard if
under 0x80 and not over.  IBM-ASCII is available on DOS machines.
ANSI-ASCII is available in DOS Windows (and it does not match IBM-ASCII)
and in many UNIX systems.  MAC-ASCII is also different (Macintosh).
Names (i.e. IBM-ASCII) are not the official ones (if they exist).


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