Re: UTF-8, OSTA-UDF [why?], Unicode, and miscellaneous gibberi=

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@lap.noris.de)
27 Aug 1997 11:25:43 +0200


hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
>
> Furthermore, in Swedish, "ü" sorts like "y", between "x" and "z", but
> in German it sorts after "z", "ä" and "ö". In Swedish "w" sorts like
> "v", between "u" and "x", but in English separetly between "v" and
> "x".
>
You're mostly right, but in German, "ä" sorts like "ae".

> Until recently, in Spanish, the *two* letters "ch" sorted like a
> separate letter between "c" and "d".
>
Now _that_ is fun to implement.