From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66b5a21ede8a1dd0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-03 00:30:33 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!toads.pgh.pa.us!tore From: tore@lis.pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: icelandic eth thorn Date: 1 Mar 1995 06:31:02 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh Message-ID: <3j14b7$3in@toads.pgh.pa.us> References: <3iuu5p$15qe@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: icarus.lis.pitt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1995-03-01T06:31:02+00:00 List-Id: 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 :-) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Tore B. Joergensen, | e-mail: tore@lis.pitt.edu a norwegian student | snail-mail: 2201 Pittockstr. a long way from home. | Pittsburgh, 15217 PA | web: http://www.pitt.edu/~tojst1