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mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
>THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE ONCE YOU ACCEPTED THAT INCOMPATIBILITY WITH
>EXISTING HISTORICAL RULES IS NECESSARY!

I don't accept it.  Computers have to change to please users, not the
other way around.

There is no sorting order that will satisfy everybody.  Thus it is not
a good idea to embed one into the character set and make everybody use
it.

I have had no problem sorting strings in character sets where the
order of the letters is not the same as the order in my alphabet.
(I'm not claiming that it is trivial in all languages, though, but as
far as I can see, it is more or less trivial for all languages that I
know.)

My humble, uninformed opinion, of course.

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   MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.