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Article #76Re: Alphabetical Order
From: dik
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1985 15:31
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1985 15:31
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In article <2435@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>How about equivalence? A language might interfile "x" with "j", for
>instance. The Dutch interfile "y" and the digraph "ij".
>
Not entirely true; there are three sorting orders in use for "ij":
1. Dictionary order: sort amongst i.
2. Encyclopaedical order: sort as a different letter (also different from y).
3. Most general: sort as equivalent to y.
>(Or do they? Can anybody think of a Dutch word in which "ij" is
>_not_ equivalent to "y"?)
Yes (although the words that come to my mind are not of dutch origin):
bijouterie (from french of course): i and j do not form a digraph
here but are two distinctive letters.
>--
>Col. G. L. Sicherman
Sorting is however not such a problem: just write appropriate filters
that prepend the objects to be sorted with a key etc.
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
UUCP: {seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!dik
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