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Article #882Re: International Collating Sequence
From: Lawrence Crowl
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1987 14:06
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1987 14:06
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In article <21031@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP
(David Phillip Oster) writes:
>Hey, why not just sort by the numeric value of the ASCII code of the
>characters? That way, all our existing English language software already does
>the "right" thing.
It doesn't do the "right" thing. No one I know says "Z" < "a". And what do we
do about all the modified characters? Tack them on at the end in some random
order? Ugly! Surely we can do something halfway rational.
--
Lawrence Crowl 716-275-9499 University of Rochester
crowl@cs.rochester.edu Computer Science Department
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!crowl From: crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: International Collating Sequence Message-ID: <2781@sol.ARPA> Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 10:06:21 EDT Article-I.D.: sol.2781 Posted: Wed Sep 30 10:06:21 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 21:37:08 EDT References: <21031@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 13