RE: Linguistic precedence [was: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian

2000-06-15 Thread Michael Kaplan (Trigeminal Inc.)
On the cover of my French driver's license, it says ``Driving license'' in 10 languages (all the EU languages at the time it was printed). The titles are ordered alphabetically by the name of the language in the language itself. The Portuguese don't seem to mind. (Fair enough,

RE: Linguistic precedence [was: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian

2000-06-15 Thread jarkko . hietaniemi
Actually, in the case of the 10 EU languages being referred to, I do not think there would be any dissention as to the order, would there be? Admittedly if Lithuania was in the EU and there were countries that started with a "Y" there as well, there would be problems with people who did not

RE: Linguistic precedence [was: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian

2000-06-15 Thread Michael Kaplan (Trigeminal Inc.)
I admit to nitpicking because in this particular case, the language names, we may be just lucky so that there are no collation conflicts. I believe this is an accurate statement... .we ARE lucky, so far. But believing that there is a collation order that works across all

Re: Linguistic precedence [was: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian

2000-06-15 Thread John Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But believing that there is a collation order that works across all the European (Latin script, let's not even go to Cyrillic and Greek) languages is a very hopeless fallacy: Quite true. But there is a *default* collation that works *fairly* well, plus machinery for