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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Message-ID: <8499@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 01:41:14 GMT
- References: <1hu9v5INNbp1@rodan.UU.NET> <DwqPwB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> <1i2ommINN5uh@rodan.UU.NET>
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- In article <1i2ommINN5uh@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
- > In article <DwqPwB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
- > >> defined rules for cross-sorting (unlike latters WITHIN one
- > >> meta-alphabet; you CAN sort English and German words together
- > >> and it still will make sense;
- > >
- > >Why do you think it would make sense?
- >
- > It's easy, Watson. Names, for example. Or (a case from my practice)
- > -- there is a lot of commercial enterprises in Moscow with English
- > names (moda, i guess). Then, i've got to sort the list.
- > The KOI-8 sorting produced a list contained all Russian names
- > in alphabetical order and then all English in alpabetical order
- > which was exactly what was desired.
-
- You are confused about a few things. Unicode will help your sorting
- Cyrillic names and Latin names just fine. It has separate coding points
- for the complete Cyrillic alphabet. You are mixing soring with different
- scripts and sorting different languages. The latter makes no sense if
- you use for each word the place it should occupy in its native language
- (especially for loan-words).
- >
- > >It won't make sense. Lexical sorting makes only sense, if at all, in
- > >*one* single language.
- >
- > See before.
- See before, you give different scripts not different languages.
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