Robin Becker wrote: > Björn, in one of our projects we are sorting in javascript in > several languages English, German, Scandinavian languages, > Japanese; from somewhere (I cannot actually remember) we got this > sort spelling function for scandic languages > > a > .replace(/\u00C4/g,'A~') //A umlaut > .replace(/\u00e4/g,'a~') //a umlaut > .replace(/\u00D6/g,'O~') //O umlaut > .replace(/\u00f6/g,'o~') //o umlaut > .replace(/\u00DC/g,'U~') //U umlaut > .replace(/\u00fc/g,'u~') //u umlaut > .replace(/\u00C5/g,'A~~') //A ring > .replace(/\u00e5/g,'a~~'); //a ring > > does this actually make sense?
If I'm not mistaken, this would sort all umlauts after the "pure" vowels. This is, according to <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Alphabetische_Sortierung>, used in Austria. If you can't understand german, the rules given there in section "Einsortierungsregeln" (roughly: ordering rules) translate as follows: "X und Y sind gleich": "X equals Y" "X kommt nach Y": "X comes after Y" Regards&HTH, Björn -- BOFH excuse #146: Communications satellite used by the military for star wars. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
