Alan Jay Weiner wrote / skrev: >>I wonder how safe it is to assume that 'B' is going to be always right after >>'A' as far as the Palm OS universe goes. /PaulN > > > I'd sort it that way, so immediately you know it's wrong... :) > > From http://www.fact-index.com/d/di/diacritic.html : > (googling "diacritical sort letters") > > Different languages use different rules to put diacritic characters in > alphabetical order. French and German treat letters with diacritical marks the > same as the underlying letter for purposes of ordering and dictionaries, but in > German phone books the umlauts are treated as combinations of the vowel with a > suffixed 'e'. The Scandinavian languages, by contrast, treat the diacritics as > new and separate letters of the alphabet, and sort them after z. Other languages
Just a little note that is not really relevant to this discussion, this only applies to the actual letters �, � and � in the Swedish alphabeth. Other diactrics such as � are not separate letters, also 'v' and 'w' should be considered interchangable in a proper swedish sort order. Also Norweigan (both languages) and Danish do not use theese letters they have their own. - Veronica Loell -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
