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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.110735.17551@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 11:07:35 GMT
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- In article <8490@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
- >Wrong Vadim. You cannot even do it in the European languages. You cannot
- >even do it in German. How would you assign codes such that the German
- >A-umlaut sorts as if it is the letter combination AE, and at the same
-
- But 'locale' is not just country; in the locale of names in telephone
- directories, 'Mac<uppercase>' sorts with 'Mc<uppercase>', 'St.' is expanded
- to 'Saint' etc. You nearly always need to take into account other rules
- than the character codes; therefore, if the character codes aren't right
- for every language it really doesn't matter.
-