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, 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 is claimed to be true for the other Scandanavian > > languages also. > > > > I scanned a couple dictionaries and couldn't find a use of u-umlaut. > > > > a) Is it true or not that u-umlaut would sort with y, in Scandanavian > > languages? > > For Norwegian, yes. This fact is recorded with the ISO cultural register, > ans the info is available at > http://std.dkuug.dk/cultreg/registrations/narrative/nb_NO,_4.5 > It is also true for Danish, Swedish and Finnish according to the same > registry. > > Kind regards > keld Simonsen -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1-781-280-4271 the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655 ------------------------------------------------------------- Find out about Globalization Empowerment for Progress users mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For a compelling demonstration for Unicode: http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html
