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unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
>Believe me, German users who know what they are talking about won't
>complan if "a, "o and "u are not sorted as ae, oe and ue.

I believe you.  I'm sure that the analogous statement is true for French.  But
I'm almost as sure that Swedish readers won't want "a-circle" to be anywhere
near "a".  I think your flexibility on this is a language-relative phenomenon.

>Sorting all latin characters directly behind their version without a diacritic
>will be accepted by 99.9% of people using latin alphabets,

Let's hear from more Scandinavians on this.. and where would you put the Danish
o-with-a-slash-through-it?  Surely that slash isn't a diacritical mark...

I think that your statement from a later article,

>Word lists produced by my algorithm are pretty easy to scan for human eyes.

is language-relative as well.  If people are used to thinking of a-circle as
being at the end of the alphabet, it may become a different letter.  For all I
know they think of it as a circle with an "a" as a diacritical mark rather than
the other way around.

ajr

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