Norwegian sorting

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 07:27:07 EST


I gave a course in internationalization last week, and one of the slides
I used indicated that in Norwegian u-umlaut sorts with Y between X and
Z. Some Norwegians attending disputed this. I see this is referenced
elsewhere as well and is claimed to be true for the other Scandanavian
languages also.

I scanned a couple dictionaries and couldn't find a use of u-umlaut.

a) Is it true or not that u-umlaut would sort with y, in Scandanavian
languages?

b) Can someone offers some example words that demonstrate words with
u-umlaut sorting appropriately?

c) I am guessing that u-umlaut only appears in borrowed foreign words.
Regardless, can anyone offer an explanation why u-umlaut would sort with
y, instead of u? (OK, I know that international things don't have to
make logical sense, but I thought I would ask anyway.)

thanks / tack så

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