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maf@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Forssen) writes:

> I'm afraid a lot of Swedes will refuse to accept any sorting order which
> places aring and adiaeresis adjacent to a. In swedish these are completely
> different characters and aring and adiaeresis comes after z. All of this
> IMHO of course.

Isn't the Swedish convention to sort a-ring after z just as arbitrarily
as the confusing old convention to sort a-diaresis in Germany as ae?

There are at least a few real world applications (I don't talk about
trivialities like UNIX ls), e.g. catalogs of international libraries,
where an _easy_ to understand language independend sorting standard would
be extremely useful. Why not standardize one for Unicode in an easy
_implementable_ way? Then let's see, how many people will adopt it and
will quickly forget their traditional rules. Perhaps even many users
in Sweden. There are perhaps already some multilingual sorting rules
common practice, but I know no one that defines an easy implementable
deterministic and total ordering for ISO 10646 strings.

I don't suggest to remove all locale mechanisms, but just to offer one
simple, efficient, easy to understand modern 'international locale' for people
who don't stick to their national locales and who have serious problems
with multiple different locales.

Markus

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