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Started by David Phillip Oster
Wed, 30 Sep 1987 06:19
Re: International Collating Sequence
Author: David Phillip Oster
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1987 06:19
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1987 06:19
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Since different nations have different, incompatible collating sequences and any _international_ collating system could not simultaneously sort the same set into two lists at once, an _international_ collating sequence must be different from the national collating sequence. Since we aren't shackled by by the existing national collating sequences, we might as well make our new, international one simple. 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.
Re: International Collating Sequence
Author: 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.
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Lawrence Crowl 716-275-9499 University of Rochester
crowl@cs.rochester.edu Computer Science Department
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