Re: Alphabetical ordering of supported languages in release notes gets messed up when localized

["Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>]

On 8/7/08, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
>  I seem to recall ö being sorted differently in German and some other language.

Correct -- in German, 'ö' is not part of the alphabet and treated like
a variant of 'o' when sorted, but in Scandinavian languages like
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish,  'ö' (and its Danish and Norwegian
counterpart 'ø') is considered a distinct letter and part of the
alphabet, and therefore has its own place in the alphabet, at the end
of it at positions after 'z'.

But in order to make things not too easy, the Danish-Norwegian
alphabet and the Swedish alphabet places this character at different
positions at the end of the alphabet, and hence the collation rules
also differ accordingly[1,2].

Localized collation rules are so much fun. ;-)


Christian



[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet