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From: pfj@rhi.hi.is (Pall Freyr Jonsson)
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Subject: Re: icelandic eth thorn
Date: 2 Mar 1995 21:35:48 GMT
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In <3iuu5p$15qe@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> ucaa2385@iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:


>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.

>However, I do not know how whether the characters 
>icelandic_eth and icelandic_thorn are usually sorted into
>the lower set of ascii-characters in a typical icelandic 
>telephone book or whether they are characters entirely in their 
>own right.

The Icelandic eth is usually  mapped to d.  In Icelandic there is no
word beginning with eth so it has never been a problem and we do not
have a seperate "eth-division" in the phone directory :).  The Icelandic thorn
is an indipendent character and comes after Z in the Icelandic alphabet.

Pall Freyr Jonsson
pfj@rhi.hi.is