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 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'm not sure there is an established English sort order. It's not a 
> > problem that comes up much in English. 
> 
>       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!

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.

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