Re: [MacPerl] The MacPerl Pages and book (update)

["Brian L. Matthews" <blm@halcyon.com>]

Lasse =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hiller=F8e?= Petersen writes:
|But suddenly sorting names has turned out to be pretty complex.

Even ignoring accented characters and such it's complex. For example,
at one time names starting with Mac, Mc, and M' were all sorted as if
they started with Mac. That requirement's been relaxed today, I suspect
because no one ever does it.

The Chicago Manual of Style has 8 pages of fairly small print on
alphabetizing personal names. Many of the rules depend upon the
national origin of the name's owner.

Brian

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