Thursday 31 December 2009 09:54:49 je Przemysław Czerpak napisal: > Neither Slovenian nor Croatian collation define the relations to X and Y > characters. OK but I do not believe that you never have to sort words > having them so what is the common practice in such situations? I.e. how > words starting with X or Y are sorted in printed vocabularies? Or maybe > it depends on situation and different rules are used in vocabulary, > encyclopedia and phone book? Or maybe these area is still undefined so > everyone has to take his own arbitrary decision about it? > It's possible that there are some differences between Slovenia and > Croatia so I would like to hear the answer from both of you. > I will have to check this at home, but common sense answer to this would be, that X an Y are sorted as in english. I will try to get answer to this from more competent sources than myself :-)
In general this letters dont exist in slovenian alphabet and are used only in names (of company or personal) of non-slovenian origin, the same goes for Ć,Đ and digraphs you mention (Dž, Lj and Nj). Digraphs were here aways writen as two separate letters . LP, Tomaž _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
