Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!mcvax!aeb
From: aeb@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International Collating Sequence
Message-ID: <363@zuring.cwi.nl>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 13:10:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: zuring.363
Posted: Fri Oct  2 13:10:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 07:09:17 EDT
References: <2706@sol.ARPA> <29640@sun.uucp>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 12

In article <29640@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>An international collating sequence could certainly be cooked up,
>but in practice who (other than programmers) would want it?

In a bibliographic journal one is forced to list the authors
or names of journals in some order, mixing names from many different
languages and using many different types of diacritical marks.
Thus, one has to define some "international collating sequence"
in such a situation. Does G\*:odel come before or after Godsil?

-- 
      Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- uunet!mcvax!aeb -- aeb@cwi.nl