On 6 Nov 2007 22:43:39 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) wrote: >Finally, there is the fact that software engineers -- or at least human >factors engineers -- apparently never reviewed ASCII. As we all know, >EBCDIC puts the letters in the correct numerical order, collating uppercase >and lowercase: AaBbCc.... ASCII doesn't. It's ABCDEF...abcdef.... Thus >decades of dumb ASCII software -- and there's a lot of dumb software in the >world -- has frustrated users everywhere.
ASCII is worse this way - but there always will be problems with sorting, because sorting words and names has never had a complete definition that we all agree upon. (iTunes recently decided to sort numeric song titles at the end instead of at the beginning the way they were a couple of months ago). How many Roman based alphabets have tildes and accents - that are part of names that need to be sorted consistently? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
