On 8/7/08, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to recall ö being sorted differently in German and some other > language.
Correct -- in German, 'ö' is not part of the alphabet and treated like a variant of 'o' when sorted, but in Scandinavian languages like Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, 'ö' (and its Danish and Norwegian counterpart 'ø') is considered a distinct letter and part of the alphabet, and therefore has its own place in the alphabet, at the end of it at positions after 'z'. But in order to make things not too easy, the Danish-Norwegian alphabet and the Swedish alphabet places this character at different positions at the end of the alphabet, and hence the collation rules also differ accordingly[1,2]. Localized collation rules are so much fun. ;-) Christian [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
