Tony Harminc wrote:
Spanish had a grand, uh, reordering some years ago in the name of "making things easier for computers" just about at the same time that the IBMers figured out how to do it right. So ll used to sort independently of single l words, but now it sorts after lk and before lm, as it does in English. I believe some systems support an "old Spanish" locale with ordering that puts llama after zapata.
You picked a really horrid example. I was taught that "llama" is pronounced with an "l" sound (old Quechua), but according to wiki, modern Quechua copied the "y" sound from Spanish. Webster's shows both as valid. And where in this sequence would you put a Welsh "ll"? <g>
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