- From: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:03:56 +0200
- To: www-international@w3.org
Martin Bryan wrote: > When SC18/WG8 looked into sorting for ISO/IEC 10179 we came across a number > of problems that prevented us from adopting a common algorithm ... > If SC22/WG20 can come up with an ordering that can be accepted by all > dictionary producers as an internationally agreed standard I can assure you > that SC18/WG8 will be only too glad to adopt it, but at present our > community, the publishing world, cannot agree on a standardized ordering of > accented characters I would like to add another problem preventing a useful international standard on ordering: For a multilingual document which has Hebrew as it's base language, the ordering of the index would have Hebrew preceding other scripts. I suppose the parallel would apply to a document which has Greek or Arabic as base language. The proposed standard has the Latin script first, which may well be fine for a CEN or ANSI standard, but I don't think it is apropriate for an ISO standard. -- Jonathan Rosenne JR Consulting P O Box 33641, Tel Aviv, Israel Phone: +972 50 246 522 Fax: +972 9 956 7353 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Jonathan_Rosenne/
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