[OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread Peter_Constable
How do Francophones view the o-circumflex "ô" in relation to the letter "o"? Is it a distinct grapheme, or is it considered a variant of "o"? - Peter --- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 75

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread Thierry Sourbier
iacritical marks are sorted in French in such a funky way :). Cheers, Thierry <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> www.i18ngurus.com - Open Internationalizat

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Thierry Sourbier wrote: > The only little thing to know about French and diacritical mark is that when > doing a sort diacritical mark are evaluated from right to left. (e.g. > "cote" < "côte" < "coté" vs the English order "cote" < "coté" < "côte" ). I'

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:12:28PM -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote: > > > From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM > > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Thierry Sourbier wrote: > > > The only little thing to know about French and diacriti

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread Ayers, Mike
> From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Thierry Sourbier wrote: > > The only little thing to know about French and diacritical > mark is that when > > doing a sort diacritical mark are evaluated

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread Alex Bochannek
My impression is that at least in U.S. states, which are more heavily populated by native Spanish speakers, the one diacritic, which is frequently viewed by English speakers as non-optional to differentiate two words (specifically proper names) is the tilde as used for the eñe. There is a college

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread James Kass
David Starner wrote: > Yes, but I mean for "cote", "côte, and "coté. How would you > sort those three in English? I'd probably sort it by some > extra-lingual information: i.e. page number, date of birth > or the like. Store them as UTF-8, do a DOS sort, and call the results "the new World ord

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-06 Thread
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; $B08@h(B: 'David Starner' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cc: $BF|;~(B: 01/09/06 21:12 $B7oL>(B: RE: [OT] o-circumflex > >> From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Bertrand Laidain
>I would say it is a variant of "o" we just called it... "o with a circumflex >accent" ("o avec un accent circonflex"). The difference between "o" and "ô" >is normally audible (for a French speaker). The relationship is the same >than with any other letter which sometimes have accents (e.g. "a" an

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Ayers, Mike wrote: > > > From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM > > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Thierry Sourbier wrote: > > > The only little thing to know about French and diacritical > > mark is that

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread J M Sykes
> > I believe that there is an established sort order in English, which > is to sort without regard to diacritics, or else we'd never find the words! > In English (American English more than British English), diacritics are > considered optional, and it is common to see "naїve" written "naive", "S

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread
There is also no word pair separated only by the I/J distinction (in English), right? $B$8$e$&$$$C$A$c$s(B(Juuitchan) Well, I guess what you say is true, I could never be the right kind of girl for you, I could never be your woman - White Town I know of no word pair in a

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread
$B$8$e$&$$$C$A$c$s(B(Juuitchan) Well, I guess what you say is true, I could never be the right kind of girl for you, I could never be your woman - White Town > >Who'd be a lexicographer? $B;d!)(B > >Mike. > >**

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Ayers, Mike
> From: J M Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 07:50 AM > The classic example is 'resume' and 'résumé'. These are, by > now, two quite > distinct words, and the fact that there is no 'established' > order is shown I spell both "resume" and have never

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread David Gallardo
]> To: "'David Starner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:12 PM Subject: RE: [OT] o-circumflex > > > From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM >

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Timothy Greenwood
> There is also no word pair separated only by the I/J > distinction (in English), right? iamb - as in iambic pentamater jamb - as in a door jamb

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Ayers, Mike
> From: David Gallardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:07 AM > As a practical matter, you need to take the diacritics into > account when > sorting, even in English where they (may or may not) have linguistic > significance, otherwise you'll get nondeterministi

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "David Gallardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As a practical matter, you need to take the diacritics into account when > sorting, even in English where they (may or may not) have linguistic > significance, otherwise you'll get nondeterministic behaviour. In other > words, résumé and resume should

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 11:50 AM 9/7/01 -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote: >Words with the >same spelling and different pronunciation are uncommon but exist in English, >the classic example being "read" and its own past tense. Actually, this is a bit more common than you think, since the pronunciation of vowels in English de

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 01:06 PM 9/7/01 -0400, David Gallardo wrote: >As a practical matter, you need to take the diacritics into account when >sorting, even in English where they (may or may not) have linguistic >significance, otherwise you'll get nondeterministic behaviour. In other >words, résumé and resume shoul

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Carl W. Brown
there are other considerations. Carl > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Asmus Freytag > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:51 AM > To: David Gallardo; Ayers, Mike; 'David Starner'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Davis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:52 Subject: RE: [OT] o-circumflex > At 11:50 AM 9/7/01 -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote: > >Words with the > >same spelling and different pronunciation are uncommon but exist in English, > >the classic example being &quo

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Davis
]> To: "David Gallardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ayers, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'David Starner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:50 Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > At 01:06 PM 9/7/01 -04

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-09-07 17:19:49 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You are quite correct that is why Unicode support differing collation > strengths. Some times you only care about the actual letters without > diacritics. But even then letters are locale sensitive. F

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread Carl W. Brown
Doug, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > > > In a mes

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread Francesco Zappa Nardelli
Hello. >> For example the Danish alphabet starts with an A and ends it with A >> ring above. A Dane would look for Alborg near the end of a list of >> towns. I was in Aalborg fifteen days ago, and I have seen its name written both as Ålborg and as Aalborg. Where does Aalborg appear in a list

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 09:04 PM 9/7/01 -0700, Mark Davis wrote: >I disagree. What you want is a merged database field. See >http://www.macchiato.com/slides/icu_collation.ppt > >Mark Mark, David took the remainder of our discussion off the alias. I won't repeat it here, just to note that we've agreed that merged da

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread David Gallardo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 1:51 AM Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > In a message dated 2001-09-07 17:19:49 Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > You are quite correct that is why Unicode support differing

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread Mark Davis
delli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > Hello. > > >> For example the Danish alphabet starts with an A and ends it with A > >> ring above. A Dane would look for Alborg n

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-09-08 12:00:43 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I know the Real Academia Española decided to do away with "ch" and "ll" in > 1994, but do you know if the other Spanish speaking countries' corresponding > academies done the same? I have no idea. I d

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 02:45 PM 9/8/01 -0700, Mark Davis wrote: >If you use a Danish tailoring of the UCA that equates Å and AA (at least at >a primary and secondary level), then they will sort the same way. A string >search that uses the same tailoring will also find "Ålborg" when given >"Aalborg" (and vice versa)

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread Carl W. Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Asmus Freytag > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 5:56 PM > To: Mark Davis; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Francesco Zappa Nardelli > Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > > > At 02:45 PM 9/8/01 -0700, Mark Davis wrote: > >If you

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-08 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
Behalf Of Carl W. Brown > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 4:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OT] o-circumflex > > > Asmus, > > This discussion reminds me of my ill fated efforts to produce a manageable > set of rules to do automatic title casing startin

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-09 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:38:57PM -0700, Carl W. Brown wrote: > Asmus, > > If you are entering Danish city names then enter it as Ålborg. You should > only use Aalborg where the font does not support Å. For matching logic you > can equate Å to Aa then the issue of compound words goes away. we

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-09 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 9 september 2001 14:21 Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:38:57PM -0700, Carl

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-09 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:04:30PM +0200, Stefan Persson wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: den 9 september 2001 14

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-09 Thread John Cowan
Keld Jørn Simonsen scripsit: > Yes, foreigners call our cities many strange things:-) > København is called Köpenhamn, Copenhagen, Kobenhagen, Copenhague, > and many more. Helsingør is called Elsinore. None of which is as weird as Leghorn for Livorno (Italy). -- John Cowan http://ww

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-09 Thread
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RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Marco Cimarosti
John Cowan wrote: > None of which is as weird as Leghorn for Livorno (Italy). It's as weird as some Italian names for German cities: Aquisgrana for Aachen, Augusta for Augsburg, Magonza for Mainz, Monaco (di Baviera) for München. _ Marco

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Carl W. Brown wrote: > In Arabic do you include vowels or not? Yes, and also consonants sometimes... Traditional Arabic dictionary sorting uses the three-letter root ("radical") of a word as the primary key. So, "madrasa" (school) would be under "d" (because its radical is "d-r-s" = to learn),

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Asmus Freytag wrote: > But if you do this, all compound words starting with "data" > and continuing > with another word starting with "a" will be sorted incorrectly! > > To achieve this effect, you would have to mark which AAs are > A-Rings and which ones are accidental adjacencies. In Danish

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Everson
At 18:04 +0200 2001-09-09, Stefan Persson wrote: > > well, the official spelling of the town is Aalborg. > >In Sweden it has always been written "Ålborg." At one stage, in both countries, it was written Álaborg, I suspect, as it is in Iceland today. -- Michael Everson

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Everson
At 18:10 -0400 2001-09-09, John Cowan wrote: >Keld Jørn Simonsen scripsit: > >> Yes, foreigners call our cities many strange things:-) >> København is called Köpenhamn, Copenhagen, Kobenhagen, Copenhague, > > and many more. In Iceland it is Kaupmannahöfn, I believe. In unadorned English that

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:09:28AM +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > Asmus Freytag wrote: > > But if you do this, all compound words starting with "data" > > and continuing > > with another word starting with "a" will be sorted incorrectly! > > > > To achieve this effect, you would have to mark w

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Real-life sorts, like MS Windows sorting or Linux sorting, actually adheres > to these Danish rules, once you have set up your machine for Danish. And this is the *true* answer to the whole mess of attempting *multilingual* sorts -- once the user

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Marco Cimarosti
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:09:28AM +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > Asmus Freytag wrote: > > > But if you do this, all compound words starting with "data" > > > and continuing > > > with another word starting with "a" will be sorted incorrectly! > > > > > > To achieve this effect, you would

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:47:48 +0200, Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > It's as weird as some Italian names for German cities: Aquisgrana > for Aachen, Augusta for Augsburg, Magonza for Mainz, Monaco (di > Baviera) for München. Interesting that Polish names of these cities are more like It

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:09:28AM +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > > Asmus Freytag wrote: > > > > But if you do this, all compound words starting with "data" > > > > and continuing > > > > with another word starting with "a"

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Michael, that isn't the point. There is a problem even when you stick to one > language. > > That is, there are situations where two letters in a language, e.g. "ch" in > Slovak, are normally sorted as one. However, in some exceptional > circumstances thos

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Mark Davis
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Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread John Wilcock
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:42:45 +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > But maybe you are driving for a yet more complex sorting, one that can sort > according to multiple rules? Beijing should then not be sorted as Beÿing? I haven't followed this discussion from the beginning, so apologies if I'm missin

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Marco Cimarosti
John Wilcock wrote: > I haven't followed this discussion from the beginning, so apologies if > I'm missing the point, but it seems to me that the Beijing case in > Dutch is no different from the ekstraarbejde case in Danish - a SHY or > ZWNJ is all that is needed to stop Beijing sorting with Bey.

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread
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Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'John Wilcock'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 10 september 2001 18:35 Subject: RE: [OT] o-circumflex > John Wilcock wrote: > > I haven&#x

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Stefan Persson wrote: > I thought "ij" sorted after "z?" Not in Dutch: as far as I have seen it sorts the same as "y". In fact, in the telephone directory many people who had an "y" in their surname listed near people who had the same surname spelled with "ij" (e.g. "Meyer" and "Meijer"). (Anyw

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Stefan Persson
and "o" in a Swedish encyclopædia. In Swedish the Danish/Norwegian letter "æ" is sorted as "ä," while the Latin/Icelandic letter "æ" is sorted as "ae." Stefan - Original Message - From: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Thomas Chan
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, [ISO-2022-JP] $B$F$s$I$&$j$e$&$8(B wrote: > If they can't agree on the pronunciation for these cities, can they > agree on the Hanzi for them? What ARE the Hanzi for these cities, > anyway?? Are you asking for the names of cities in Chinese? Copenhagen is ge1ben3ha1gen1 \

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
Where is this done for swedish? I have read both the TN and the SIS standard, and I dont believe these say something on sorting ü according to either German or Dutch sounds. Rolf Gavare does not say something along this either, as far as I can remember. Kind regards keld On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread
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Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Carl W. Brown | | You are quite correct that is why Unicode support differing | collation strengths. Some times you only care about the actual | letters without diacritics. But even then letters are locale | sensitive. For example the Danish alphabet starts with an A and | ends it with A ri

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Francesco Zappa Nardelli | | I was in Aalborg fifteen days ago, and I have seen its name written | both as Ålborg and as Aalborg. Where does Aalborg appear in a list | of towns? At the end. In both Danish and Norwegian 'aa' and 'å' are considered equivalent. I am not sure of this, but I thi

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Jonathan Rosenne | | This is not always the right thing to do. For example, with personal | names the person involved may decide whether he prefers the old (AA) | spelling or the new Å. In any case they are equivalent. This is true, but this is nothing particular to the aa/å distinction. Many

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Keld Jørn Simonsen | | Yes, foreigners call our cities many strange things:-) København is | called Köpenhamn, Copenhagen, Kobenhagen, Copenhague, and many more. * Michael Everson | | In Iceland it is Kaupmannahöfn, I believe. In unadorned English that | would be something like Cheapmenshaven

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Marco Cimarosti | | One of these cases could be the word "dataarkiv", which I found in a Danish | web page | (http://www.riksarkivet.no/nordiskarknytt/98-nr4/institusjonen.html). Uh, no, you found it in a Norwegian web page. The word is the same in Danish, though. | Order B: |

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Peter_Constable
On 09/10/2001 07:48:05 AM Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote: >(can't believe this thread is still going on!) I just wanted to know about how Francophones perceive certain graphemes, and I got that answer a long time ago. Peter

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> It's as weird as some Italian names for German cities: Aquisgrana >> for Aachen, Augusta for Augsburg, Magonza for Mainz, Monaco (di >> Baviera) for München. MK> Interesting that Polish names of these cities are more like Italian MK> than German: Akwizgran, Augsburg, Moguncja, Monachium. Beca

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Otmar Permentier
riginal Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Marco Cimarosti > Sent: maandag 10 september 2001 19:59 > To: 'Stefan Persson'; 'John Wilcock'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OT] o-circumflex > > > Stefan P

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread
oman - White Town --- Original Message --- $B:9=P?M(B: Thomas Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; $B08@h(B: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cc: $BF|;~(B: 01/09/10 19:59 $B7oL>(B: Re: [OT] o-circumflex >On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, [ISO-2022-JP] $B$F$s$I$&$j$e$&$8(B wrote: > >> If they can

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-10 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Wy OT by now... > AAARRRGGHHH > > I give up! > > I was hoping that there is SOME system that would give these cities UNIQUE names... >postal codes??? Ain't reality a bitch? What you're looking for doesn't exist in the world of natural language names -- it can only exist in artificially c

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-11 Thread Stefan Persson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 10 september 2001 22:12 Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > Where is this done for swedish? I have read both the TN and the SIS > standard, and I dont believe these say something on sorting > ü according to either German or

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-11 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: "Lars Marius Garshol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 10 september 2001 22:45 Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > I am not sure of this, but I think 'å' is a relatively modern > invention, and that

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-11 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
chael (michka) Kaplan" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: den 10 september 2001 22:12 > Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex > > > > Where is this done for swedish? I have read both th

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-11 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Lars Marius Garshol | | I am not sure of this, but I think 'å' is a relatively modern | invention, and that it was originally written only as 'aa'. * Stefan Persson | | FYI, "a relatively modern invention" means that is has been used | since the Medieval (in Swedish). I don't think that is t

Re: [OT] o-circumflex/Spanish sorting

2001-09-08 Thread Tex Texin
David, I also don't know if the other countries have academies, but my understanding is Latin American countries haven't accepted the modern sort. Having said that, there is a lot of software that does not implement the traditional sort, so "acceptance" is moot. (The reason the Real Academia Españ

Re: [OT] o-circumflex/Spanish sorting

2001-09-09 Thread David Gallardo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 2:15 AM Subject: Re: [OT] o-circumflex/Spanish sorting > David, > I also don't know if the other countries have academies, but my > understanding is Latin American countries haven't accepted th

Collation (was RE: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-13 Thread Edward Cherlin
English and several other languages have dozens of collations. Compare telephone books, library catalogs, book indexes (sic), and other sorted data. Knuth vol. 3 Sorting and Searching gives an example of a set of library sorting rules that runs to more than a page, and suggests programming it a

Collation (was RE: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-13 Thread
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Re: Collation (was RE: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-13 Thread David Gallardo
r myNorwegian = new RuleBasedCollator(Norwegian); There is also syntax for things such as specifying reverse order (for French accents for example), contraction and expansion. - David Gallardo - Original Message ----- From: "Edward Cherlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Collation (was RE: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-13 Thread Mark Davis
lardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Edward Cherlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Collation (was RE: [OT] o-circumflex) > Java's collation class has a rule-based collator that is in effect >

Re: Collation (was RE: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-15 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:40:30AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: : For example, : : 1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four) : 1066 and all that (Ten Sixty Six) : 3001 (Three Thousand One) : 2050 (Twenty Fifty) : 2010 (Twenty Ten) : 2001, A Space Odyssey (Two Thousand One) You're missing the "and" from 3001 a

Alternative sorting for digraphs (Was Re: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-10 Thread Mark Davis
would give the wrong rendering. Mark — Πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα — Όμήρου Μαργίτῃ [http://www.macchiato.com] - Original Message - From: "John Wilcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [O

Re: Alternative sorting for digraphs (Was Re: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-13 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Mark Davis wrote: > A ZWNJ will break ligatures and cursive connections. While probably safe in > Danish or Dutch, it is unclear to me that that is safe in all languages > where this situation occurs. There are diagraphs in Urdu, for example. While > I don't know their sortin