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From: crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International Collating Sequence
Message-ID: <2781@sol.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 10:06:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 30 10:06:21 1987
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In article <21031@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP
(David Phillip Oster) writes:
>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.

It doesn't do the "right" thing.  No one I know says "Z" < "a".  And what do we
do about all the modified characters?  Tack them on at the end in some random
order?  Ugly!  Surely we can do something halfway rational.
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