Hi -
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?
- David Gallardo
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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 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 ring above. A Dane
> > would look for Alborg near the end of a list of towns. It is like
having
> > the Spanish ch follow cz.
>
> That would be Ålborg, right?
>
> I hasten to add that Carl's Spanish example is for the so-called
"traditional
> sort," in contrast to the "modern sort" in which "ch" sorts simply as "c"
> followed by "h". In many Spanish-speaking communities, particularly here
in
> Alta California, the simplified "modern" sort is by far the more common of
> the two.
>
> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
>
