Hi Hans,
I have played a bit with sorting...
As far as I understand the problem, what is needed
is not to add things like
\startlanguagespecifics[\s!fr]
\definesortkey {\`A}{a}{a}{A}
\stoplanguagespecifics[\s!fr]
But to add sorting keys into the used encoding.
For me, this works in French: I add
\startencoding[ec]
\definesortkey {192}{a}{a}{a} % \`A
\definesortkey {224}{a}{a}{a} % \`a
\definesortkey {194}{a}{a}{a} % \^A
\definesortkey {226}{a}{a}{a} % \^a
\definesortkey {198}{ae}{a}{a} % \AE
\definesortkey {230}{ae}{a}{a} % \ae
\definesortkey {199}{c}{a}{c} % \c C
\definesortkey {231}{c}{a}{c} % \c c
\definesortkey {200}{e}{a}{e}} % \`E
\definesortkey {232}{e}{a}{e} % \`e
\definesortkey {201}{e}{a}{e} % \'E
\definesortkey {233}{e}{a}{e} % \'e
\definesortkey {202}{e}{a}{e} % \^E
\definesortkey {234}{e}{a}{e} % \^e
\definesortkey {203}{e}{a}{e} % \"E
\definesortkey {235}{e}{a}{e} % \"e
\definesortkey {206}{i}{a}{i} % \^I
\definesortkey {238}{i}{a}{i} % \^\i
\definesortkey {207}{i}{a}{i} % \"I
\definesortkey {239}{i}{a}{i} % \"\i
\definesortkey {212}{o}{a}{o} % \^O
\definesortkey {244}{o}{a}{o} % \^o
\definesortkey {215}{oe}{a}{o} % \OE
\definesortkey {247}{oe}{a}{o} % \oe
\definesortkey {217}{u}{a}{u} % \`U
\definesortkey {249}{u}{a}{u} % \`u
\definesortkey {220}{u}{a}{u} % \"U
\definesortkey {252}{u}{a}{u} % \"u
\definesortkey {152}{y}{a}{y} % \"Y
\definesortkey {184}{y}{a}{y} % \"y
\stopencoding
to enco-ec.tex and recompile the format.
There are two flaws (for me):
1) This sorting is language independent, and I guess
this is not correct: for instance we (French) would
sort {\"u} as {u} but Germans could perhaps want (?)
{\"u} to be sorted as {ue} for instance...
2) If you use the 7-bit encoding in the index command
like this:
�t�\index{\'et\'e}
then "�t�" appears at a wrong place in the index.
This is bad because it is avaisable to convert
8-bit source files into the raw TeX encoding before
sending them to other people.
Daniel.
PS: Gilles, please, check I have not forgetten anything
in my list.
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