Yep, you are right, in China, the phonebooks and dictionaries are sorted ascending using pinyin. So, in this case, if the Chinese names are stored in the DB using pinyin, then it is actually easy to sort because there will be no symbols outside of the 26 English alphabet letters.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Yuliang Ruan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually Qing Xia, how are chinese phonebooks done? Is it by pinyin? > > I grew up here in the US, dunno how alot of commonplace things are in China > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308885 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
