Thanks Keld, that was one of the sources I checked first.
I saw that it was based on a Norwegian standard, but it didn't say what
the standard was used for. So I didn't know if this was a collation that
dictionaries or phone books used, or who used it.
tex
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:27:07AM -0500, Tex Texin wrote:
> > 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?
>
> For Norwegian, yes. This fact is recorded with the ISO cultural register,
> ans the info is available at
> http://std.dkuug.dk/cultreg/registrations/narrative/nb_NO,_4.5
> It is also true for Danish, Swedish and Finnish according to the same
> registry.
>
> Kind regards
> keld Simonsen
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