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- From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- In-Reply-To: avg@rodan.UU.NET's message of 1 Jan 1993 04: 45:31 -0500
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:34:49 GMT
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- In article <1i13rrINNars@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
-
- >We were talking about lexicographical sorting
-
- When sorting a list of names, the sorting rules are determined by the
- language of the context, not by the language of the names -- indeed,
- I'd say names don't _have_ any inherent, context-independent language.
-
- Think about it: How would you sort a list containing Finnish and
- German names -- all Finnish ones first, then all German ones?? Yuck.
-
- Distinguishing between Cyrillic T and Latin T is perhaps sensible.
- Distinguishing between German a-umlaut and Finnish a-umlaut isn't.
- Wanting enough information in the mere characters to allow sorting
- isn't possible without forcing all languages that use (partially)
- common character set to use same sorting rules, which I deem
- politically impossible in the foreseeable future.
- --
- Tapani Tarvainen (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
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