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In article <8490@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>Wrong Vadim.  You cannot even do it in the European languages.  You cannot
>even do it in German.  How would you assign codes such that the German
>A-umlaut sorts as if it is the letter combination AE, and at the same

But 'locale' is not just country; in the locale of names in telephone
directories, 'Mac<uppercase>' sorts with 'Mc<uppercase>', 'St.' is expanded
to 'Saint' etc.  You nearly always need to take into account other rules
than the character codes; therefore, if the character codes aren't right
for every language it really doesn't matter.