On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 01:45:33PM +0200, NEPOTE Charles (Neuilly Gestion) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With Mandrake 7.0 or a cooker installed in french.
>
> when I :
>
> "sort db.wordlist"
>
> which contains :
>
> essai i:1
> tu� i:1
> test i:1
> tue i:1
> test i:2
> tu� i:2
> essai i:2
> tue i:2
>
> I obtain :
>
> essai i:1
> essai i:2
> test i:1
> test i:2
> tue i:1
> tu� i:1
> tue i:2
> tu� i:2
>
> Shouldn't it be :
>
> essai i:1
> essai i:2
> test i:1
> test i:2
> tue i:1
> tue i:2
> tu� i:1
> tu� i:2
>
> Because an accent in french *make sense* : "tu�" is very different from
> "tue".
Sure "tue" is different from "tu�" but "e" and "�" are the same letter and
have the same exact rank. Check into a French dictionnary. For instance in
the one I have there, I can see in the first pages:
"abb�" listed before "abbesse".
An accent makes sense but doesn't change the alphabetic rank of a letter
e, �, �, � and � all are ranked at the fifth position.
DindinX
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