> On 07 Dec 2015, at 23:58, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:54 AM, H. Hirzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello >> >> According to http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/collation/de.html the >> German >> phonebook sort order is >> >> a A ä Ä ą̈ Ą̈ ǟ Ǟ ạ̈ Ạ̈ ḁ̈ Ḁ̈ b B c C d D e E f F g G h H i I j J k K >> l L m M n N o O ö Ö ǫ̈ Ǫ̈ ȫ Ȫ ơ̈ Ơ̈ ợ̈ Ợ̈ ọ̈ Ọ̈ p P q Q r R s S ss ß t >> T u U ü Ü ǘ Ǘ ǜ Ǜ ǚ Ǚ ų̈ Ų̈ ǖ Ǖ ư̈ Ư̈ ự̈ Ự̈ ụ̈ Ụ̈ ṳ̈ Ṳ̈ ṷ̈ Ṷ̈ ṵ̈ Ṵ̈ v >> V w W x X y Y z Z >> >> I wonder why it looks like this. A lot of characters which never >> appear in a German text. > > Foreign residents? > cheers -ben
There are lot of turkish and eastern european names in the german phone book, yes. > >> >> For Spanish there is 'traditional' and 'standard' >> >> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/collation/es.html >> >> standard a A á Á b B c C d D e E é É f F g G h H i I í Í j J k K l L m >> M n N ñ Ñ ņ̃ Ņ̃ ṇ̃ Ṇ̃ ṋ̃ Ṋ̃ ṉ̃ Ṉ̃ o O ó Ó p P q Q r R s S t T u U ú Ú >> ü Ü v V w W x X y Y z Z >> >> traditional a A á Á b B c C ch Ch CH cĥ Cĥ CĤ cȟ Cȟ CȞ cḧ Cḧ CḦ cḣ Cḣ >> CḢ cḩ Cḩ CḨ cḥ Cḥ CḤ cḫ Cḫ CḪ cẖ Cẖ d D e E é É f F g G h H i I í Í j >> J k K l L ll Ll LL lĺ Lĺ LĹ lľ Lľ LĽ lļ Lļ LĻ lḷ Lḷ LḶ lḹ Lḹ LḸ lḽ Lḽ >> LḼ lḻ Lḻ LḺ m M n N ñ Ñ ņ̃ Ņ̃ ṇ̃ Ṇ̃ ṋ̃ Ṋ̃ ṉ̃ Ṉ̃ o O ó Ó p P q Q r R s >> S t T u U ú Ú ü Ü v V w W x X y Y z Z >> >> And French is not easily found >> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/collation/index.html >> or seems to be defined elsewhere >> >> http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/tags/release-27/common/collation/fr.xml >> >> Suggestions and hints are welcome >> >> --Hannes
