Subject: RE: (SC22WG20.895) With this, Spanish would be near to 6-language ordering, but...

From: Asmus Freytag <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 09:58:50 PDT

Alain,
you got it almost right: With this, the international default ordering 
should be
set up so that it treats Spanish n-tilde the Spanish way, even if the 
French would
do it differently :-)
A./

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| From:  <[email-masked]>
 Subject: (SC22WG20.895) With this, Spanish would be near to 6-language 
ordering, but...
| Date: Monday, May 02, 1994 1:57PM
|
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| With this (see annex), on which my opinion is neutral, Spanish comes near to
| the 6-language group of ordering, but they still have the N TILDE difference,
| which is sufficient to make it special. This is of course not a 
problem to me.
| Adaptation will still be useful in any such international standard.
|
| Alain LaBont<e'>
| editor, project ISO/IEC 22.30.02.02
|
| Message original:
| 
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|          A: RNET ([email-masked]), ALB
|         De: RNET ([email-masked])
|      Objet: (SC22WG20.894) An alternate algorithm for 
internationalized sorting
|       Date: lun  2 mai 94
|      Heure: 09:02 TU
|       Type: Mail
|  Livraison: Reguliere
| 
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| Or, why didn't WG20 think of this?  From an Associated Press article in
| last Fridays paper:
|
| Madrid, Spain (AP) -- The world's more than 300 million Spanish speakers
| now have two fewer letters in their alphabet to worry about, a mostly
| bookeeping move that won almost unanimous support but disturbed some
| traditionalists.
|     The Association of Spanish Language Academies, meeting in Madrid ...
| voted this week to eliminate the "Ch" and "Ll" from the Spanish alphabet.
| The two letters, which historically have had their own separate headings
| in dictionaries, now will be listed under other letters.  Words beginning
| "Ch", like "chico", will fall under the letter "C", and words beginning with
| "Ll", like "llama", will fall under the letter "L".
|     The move does not change pronunciation, usage or spelling.  It was taken
| mainly to simplify dictionaries and make Spanish more computer compatible
| with English.
|     Pushing for the change was Spain, a member of the 12-nation 
European Union.
| The EU has urged its members to implement measures that aid translation and
| computer standardization.
|     ...
|     The Spanish alphabet now has 27 letters -- the 26 contained in the
| alphabet plus a stylized "n".
|
| Thanks, Dick Weaver
|   IBM M77/E365,555 Bailey Ave,PO 49023,San Jose Ca 95161-9023
|   internet: [email-masked]
|   408-463-2956, fax ...-3114
|
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