Re: icelandic eth thorn

[tore@lis.pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen)]

Peter Hermann (ucaa2385@iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:

: icelandic question:
: For a simple sorting feature running under both Ada83 and Ada95
: I am mapping the latin-1 character code for
: a" (a with umlaut) (diaeresis) german-ae
: as well as a` a with grave accent, a' a with acute accent,
: a^ a with circumflex, a~ a with tilde, ao a with ring, ae ae diphtong
: to the code of character a.
: Correspondingly I map german_sharp_s to s, or n_tilde to n.
: For my application this is the best fit for my sorting purposes.

I don't know if you are interested, but in Norway we put the
ae, o slash, and a ring at the end of the alphabet (after z) in
that order. They are characters, not some kind of notation. Guess
you know since you are writing from Germany :-)
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