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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International Collating Sequence
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Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 02:19:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 30 02:19:07 1987
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Since different nations have different, incompatible collating
sequences and any _international_ collating system could not
simultaneously sort the same set into two lists at once, an
_international_ collating sequence must be different from the national
collating sequence.  Since we aren't shackled by by the existing
national collating sequences, we might as well make our new,
international one simple. 

Hey, why not just sort by the numeric value of the ASCII code of the
characters? That way, all our existing English language software
already does the "right" thing.