Re: Alphabetical Order

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From: Col. G. L. Sicherman
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1985 21:30

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> Here, as I understand it, are some of the problems involved:
> 
>   -- Character set.  ...
>   -- Upper vs. lower case. ...
>   -- Digraphs.  Many languages have character pairs which, for the purpose
> of alphabetization, are treated as one letter, such as Spanish "ll".
>   -- Alphabet order. ...
> 
> Anything else important I've left out?

How about equivalence?  A language might interfile "x" with "j", for
instance.  The Dutch interfile "y" and the digraph "ij".

(Or do they?  Can anybody think of a Dutch word in which "ij" is
_not_ equivalent to "y"?)
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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