Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-22 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0100, Stefan Persson wrote: - Original Message - From: Lars Marius Garshol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Unicoders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 21 januari 2002 15:16 Subject: Re: Norwegian sorting I doubt that there is an official standard

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-22 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:11:43AM -0500, Tex Texin wrote: 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

Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Tex Texin
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

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Tex Texin | | 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 doubt that there is an official standard for this, but I would expect to find Ü

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Herman Ranes
Tex Texin skreiv: 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

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Tex Texin
Herman, Many thanks. The image is just what I needed to convince the skeptics here. I will probably add it to my presentation. The point that interests me in all of this, is even though the phone books sort this way, it seems not too many Norwegians (among this crowd anyway) would think of

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
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

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Tex Texin
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,

RE: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Tex Texin wrote: The point that interests me in all of this, is even though the phone books sort this way, it seems not too many Norwegians (among this crowd anyway) would think of looking for Mller after Mylius. Probably, in most towns, all people whose name begins by Mu-, Mü-, and My- are

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: Lars Marius Garshol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Unicoders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 21 januari 2002 15:16 Subject: Re: Norwegian sorting I doubt that there is an official standard for this, but I would expect to find Ü sorted with Y, given that Norwegian Y

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2002-01-21 Thread Patrick Andries
De: "Stefan Persson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dutch: "" pronunciated completely different. Could you give us a few Dutch words with ? Patrick Andries(en ik begrijp niet goed wat gij bedoelt)

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-21 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Lars Marius Garshol | | I can't think of a Scandinavian word with ü in it, actually. You'd | have to look at an encyclopedia or atlas to find appropriate examples. * Stefan Persson | | The only Swedish word containing ü that I can think of, is | müsli, which is a German loan word. The ü is