On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Peter Constable wrote:
> > Can anyone think of other examples of informative properties
> > that are so
> > because the property is typical but not true for all languages?
>
> [snip]
I arrived late to this discussion. Is "culturally correct" sorting/filing
such a property? I believe the Japanese and Koreans sort/file Kanji/Hani
phonetically--as if they were written in kana and hangul. And that
software cannot be expected to derive the kana from the kanji. I think it
is also the case that "good" sorting of Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic scripts
is language dependent (and m aybe other scripts too.
Regards,
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