On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:24:44PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > However, national standards do sometimes describe how foreign letters
> > should be ordered, so there may be some justification for some of the
> > apparently eccentric variations.
>
> Is conformance to standards really a must in this area? The default
> collation order is only usable for very few applications, such as
> sorting a list of strings for a user interface. That's why I think
> doing the obvious thing is more important than following some kind of
> formal national standard.
>
> You certainly cannot sort a dictionary based on a locale collation
> order, or an index for a book.
The latter may be because you need to do further work on the index
or dictionary. such as removeing "the", "a" or other common words,
but once this is done the dictionaly order that is recorded with
the various locales apply.
Kind regards
Keld
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