----- 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'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.
I thought "ij" sorted after "z?"
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