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In article <1i13rrINNars@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:

>We were talking about lexicographical sorting

When sorting a list of names, the sorting rules are determined by the
language of the context, not by the language of the names -- indeed,
I'd say names don't _have_ any inherent, context-independent language.

Think about it:  How would you sort a list containing Finnish and
German names -- all Finnish ones first, then all German ones??  Yuck.

Distinguishing between Cyrillic T and Latin T is perhaps sensible.
Distinguishing between German a-umlaut and Finnish a-umlaut isn't.
Wanting enough information in the mere characters to allow sorting
isn't possible without forcing all languages that use (partially)
common character set to use same sorting rules, which I deem
politically impossible in the foreseeable future.
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Tapani Tarvainen  (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)