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In article <id.68CW.A16@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <1i13rrINNars@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
>> We were talking about lexicographical sorting, not abouth phonetics.
>
>But lexicographic sorting (actually, lexicograhic ordering) is a minor part of
>this. Most sorting computers do is algorithmic ordering, to optimise some
>combination of operations on data structures (searching, for example). The
>character set is irrelevant there.

Wrong-o. Nobody does numerical sorts since invention of secondary
indices.

The problem is not in searching -- the problem is in presenting
the information and in regular expressions ([a-z] - does it include "o?)

>I want a character set that differentiates between parts of speech.

Let's solve simplier problems first. I merely want a character set
which allows me to use my screen editor without fussing around
every search pattern i use.

><para><sentence><phrase>The semantic in <acronym>ASCII</> is <jargon>
>hard-coded</></><dash><phrase>it is the <phrase>order of letters</>
>and <phrase>the trivial <jargon>upper-case</> to <jargon>lower-case</>
>conversion</></></sentence></para>

You got me.

--vadim