Re: Danish & Norwegian sorting

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Sep 16 1998 - 05:31:25 EDT


Ar 05:51 -0700 1998-09-15, scríobh John Cowan:
>Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
>
>> Like thorn (þ) in Swedish: a separate letter, a
>> variant of "t", or as a variant of "th"?
>
>For an exhaustive, not to say exhausting, report on thorn, see
>http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/wynnyogh/thorn.html ,
>which (in brief):
>
> makes thorn the 27th letter of the Latin alphabet
> for multinational sorting (as in Icelandic),
>
>but documents seven other practices that have been used:
>
> sort Thorn after T (Old English scholarly practice),

This one is also used in Norwegian practice for Old Norse (Norrøn) texts.

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