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In article <1ii3ctINNp4c@rodan.UU.NET>, avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
> In article <1993Jan7.063116.14846@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

> All languages have a default sorting -- namely the one which is used in
> dictionaries. Existance of multiple sorting rules does not nullify
> the necessity of a default sorting which is sufficient for most cases
> and --more imortant-- can be done in an environment lacking the
> locale required for specialized sortings.
> 
> I bet 99% of users will not care WHICH sorting is used as long as they
> used to it. Other can have their own personal locale.

I missed the first part of the discussion so please forgive me if my
remark seems out of context, but default sorting will be appplication
dependent.

The existence of two distinct possible sortings is significant, IMO as
well.  Of course you will find 'words' in an order in a
Japanese-English or a Japanese dictionary arranged phonetically but
when you look in a Kan-Wa (Chinese character to Japanese) dictionary
they will be arranged by radical, fundemental segments of characters.

Users will care which sorting is used and will need both available
depending on the necessary actions.

> I've heard Japanese don't like that unification.

Perhaps because Chinese and Japanese differ in that Japanese have
phonetic and semantic characters.

> --vadim
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