Re: arsclist Cataloging Software

[<stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IIRC, in German the umlauted vowels aren't in the alphabet as such, and I
know in apps like the software that serves the public in the libraries both
in Oshawa and Toronto ö sorts as though it was a real O. There are
complicated
ways to make this happen in computers, but it doesn't happen naturally; they
use ASCII byte values for sort order, which run like unto so:
z...ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å É æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ¢ £ ¥ P f á í ó ú ñ
Ñ ª º
and don't include things like Cyrillic (with two million Russian
composers!?)
Steven C. Barr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Rockwell" <malcolm@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: arsclist Cataloging Software


> But this is correct.
> The letter "ö" comes at the end of the Swedish alphabet.
> Not sure about German. From your example it would seem so, though.
> Malcolm R
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> > <snip> One further
> > caveat...high-order bytes, such as umlauted or otherwise diacriticized
> > characters, do NOT sort in any kind of "alphabetical" order..."Schön"
> > will not come between "schoen" and "school" but instead after "Schyler!"
> > ...stevenc
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