RE: [OT] o-circumflex

[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. 

Yes, it is exactly the same thing.

But my point is that a Dutch reader probably *does* expect Beijing to sort
like Bey, not like Bei.  So, in some cases, a "correct" (i.e., expected)
behavior could rather be to *remove* all SHY/ZWNJ's before sorting.

_ Marco