Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ....... > > In German, there are some different forms: > > - the classic sorting for e.g. word lists: umlauts and plain vowels > are of same value (like you mentioned): ä = a > > - name list sorting for e.g. phone books: umlauts have the same > value as their substitutes (like Dierk described): ä = ae > > There are others, too, but those are the most widely used.
Björn, in one of our projects we are sorting in javascript in several languages English, German, Scandinavian languages, Japanese; from somewhere (I cannot actually remember) we got this sort spelling function for scandic languages a .replace(/\u00C4/g,'A~') //A umlaut .replace(/\u00e4/g,'a~') //a umlaut .replace(/\u00D6/g,'O~') //O umlaut .replace(/\u00f6/g,'o~') //o umlaut .replace(/\u00DC/g,'U~') //U umlaut .replace(/\u00fc/g,'u~') //u umlaut .replace(/\u00C5/g,'A~~') //A ring .replace(/\u00e5/g,'a~~'); //a ring does this actually make sense? -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
