[Wikipedia-l] alphabetical order

[Petr Kadlec]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:22:17 -0800, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> I can sympathize with the idea, but one has to keep in mind that the
> sort order should vary between one language and another.  In English we
> would alphebetize "æ" as though it were "ae" while Danish treats it as a
> separate letter tagged on at the end of the alphabet.

Of course! The sorting order would have to be determined by the Language object.

I know that well, as the Czech sorting has many rather peculiar
features (e.g. in the Czech language, we have a "letter" (digraph) ch
that is sorted between H and I -- specifically this would probably be
a problem for MediaWiki anyway). For a bit of amusement, our national
standard (ČSN 97 6030) governing proper sorting is known for its lack
of precision and impossibility to be implemented because its rules are
considered to be AI-complete :-). For instance, numerals in text
should be sorted according to their meaning. (In practice, simplified
interpretations are normally used.)

-- [[:cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]