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In article <1993Jan1.163927.20277@prl.dec.com>
	boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:

>In Chinese it would be natural if `sort' could sort on stroke count.
>Chinese dictionaries have indexes based on stroke count, as there is
>really no other way of locating a glyph whose reading (pronounciation)
>you do not know.
>
>In Japanese the problem is similar, but you have the kana which helps.

Completely wrong.

That Chinese-Japanese dictioary have several indexes one of which is
based on stroke count does not mean stroke count sorting is natural.

For example, the first half of JIS X 0208 is sorted by main (whatever
main means) pronounciation of each character and the rest is sorted
first by radicals and then by stroke count.

In Japanese, the only natural sorting is on pronouciation, whose
information is missing from character code. Otherwise, any sorting
is almost as good as other sorting.

						Masataka Ohta