We could use the Unicode collation algorithm, I guess. Your point is noted however.
天火狐 On 14 September 2017 at 23:46, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > > On Sep 14, 2017, at 11:43 PM, Josh T <draconicdarkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I believe that the term "alphabetical order" can be used to mean > "lexicographical order", of which increasing unicode codepoint values is a > naturalistic choice. > > Objection: ‘alphonse’ generally comes before ‘Bob’ in an alphabetical > list. Hence my question about your name: I suspected someone would apply > “lexical order” but my name comes significantly after VJ Rada’s name by > that standard, and I’m not convinced it should. > > Generally, If we mean lexical order, we should say so. Collation is a hard > problem and using terms fuzzily only makes it harder. > > -o > >
