On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:27:07AM -0500, Tex Texin wrote: > I gave a course in internationalization last week, and one of the slides > I used indicated that in Norwegian u-umlaut sorts with Y between X and > Z. Some Norwegians attending disputed this. I see this is referenced > elsewhere as well and is claimed to be true for the other Scandanavian > languages also. > > I scanned a couple dictionaries and couldn't find a use of u-umlaut. > > a) Is it true or not that u-umlaut would sort with y, in Scandanavian > languages?
For Norwegian, yes. This fact is recorded with the ISO cultural register, ans the info is available at http://std.dkuug.dk/cultreg/registrations/narrative/nb_NO,_4.5 It is also true for Danish, Swedish and Finnish according to the same registry. Kind regards keld Simonsen
