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From: bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF08 Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International Collating Sequence
Message-ID: <692@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 10:26:10 EST
Article-I.D.: its63b.692
Posted: Fri Oct 16 10:26:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 22:07:54 EST
References: <176@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF08 Bob Gray)
Organization: I.T. School, Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.
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In article <176@aiva.ed.ac.uk> bert@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Bert Hutchings) writes:
>surnames beginning with 'Mac' in their telephone directories - every variant
>spelling of this prefix is sorted as Mac, and the case of the next letter is
>ignored,  but the name is printed as the subscriber prefers to use it.  Thus
>
>	MacDonald
>	McEnroe
>	M`Farquhar
>	Macgillicuddy
>	Machine Tool Hire Ltd.
>	Mcilwraith
>	M`indoe

Just to confuse things further, some women whose family name
begins with the Mac (meaning son of) prefix, are insisting on
being known by the Nic (meaning daughter of) prefix.

yet more special cases to be taken care of.

> ... support the negative view that
>an underlying almost-ready-to-use character collation sequence is so small a
>component of every desired end product that it isn't really worth the effort.

Any collation sequence would also have to be easily
re-defined at a user level to indicate local changes in
sequence, or changes with time. Any product could have an
"international" sequence but the options should always be
there to easily override the default options.
	Bob.