On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:12:28PM -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote:
>
> > From: David Starner [mailto:dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM
>
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Thierry Sourbier wrote:
> > > The only little thing to know about French and diacritical
> > mark is that when
> > > doing a sort diacritical mark are evaluated from right to
> > left. (e.g.
> > > "cote" < "côte" < "coté" vs the English order "cote" <
> > "coté" < "côte" ).
> >
> > I'm not sure there is an established English sort order. It's not a
> > problem that comes up much in English.
>
> I believe that there is an established sort order in English, which
> is to sort without regard to diacritics, or else we'd never find the words!
Yes, but I mean for "cote", "côte, and "coté. How would you sort those
three in English? I'd probably sort it by some extra-lingual information:
i.e. page number, date of birth or the like.
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