Alan Watson scripsit:

> In Spanish, "esta" sorts before "ésta" which sorts before "está".  

This is an example of what I mean by three-level sorting.  Conceptually,
we first sort all "esta" words together, and then lexicographically
sort on the diacritics.  (French does a right-to-left sort on the
diacritics, actually.)

-- 
John Cowan   <[email protected]>   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big
thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script.  One of the geologists
came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too.
Try hanging up and phoning in again.'  --Beverly Erlebacher

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