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From: sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Dutch IJ
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Date: 4 Feb 91 18:42:11 GMT
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In article <7944@plains.NoDak.edu> kkim@plains.NoDak.edu (kyongsok kim) writes:
== 
== I don't know Dutch and if the following question does not make a sense,
== please correct me.
== I guess Meijer/Meyer is a last name.  Then which of the following is is
== considered correctly sorted in the phone book?  Or are all three
== incorrect?
== 
==       i)			ii)			iii)
== 
==       last	first		last	first		last	first	
==       ------	---------	------	---------	------	---------
==       Meijer	A		Meyer	B		Meijer	A
==       Meyer	B		Meyer	D		Meijer	C
==       Meijer C		Meijer 	A		Meyer 	B
==       Meyer  D		Meijer  C		Meyer   D

==  k kim

Scholars would insist that (iii) is correct, but phone books use (i) for
practical reasons.

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045