John W Kennedy wrote:
On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote:
For example, in the German spelling bible called "Duden", the umlauts
Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters.
Really? I worked for American Hoechst and its successors for 29 years,
and I was always instructed to collate them as equal to AE OE UE (and
ß as equal to ss, of course).
The AE, OE and UE are replacements for Ä, Ö and Ü in case that the real
characters are not available (for example, using old typewriters, or the
first 7-bit ASCII only computer displays). Today, with Unicode
everywhere, there is no excuse for not using the Umlaute or all the
other special characters.
This replacement rule is not related to the sort order rule. The German
sorting order is given by this string:
ExemplarCharacters{"[a ä b-o ö p-s ß t u ü v-z]"}
found in
http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/data/locales/de.txt
For English it is not as complicated:
ExemplarCharacters{"[a-z]"}
Uwe
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