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It is not just locale dependent, but may also depend on the type of list you are sorting. So while German dictionaries ignore the umlauts as claimed, German pho
by fhars 4y ago
It is not just locale dependent, but may also depend on the type of list you are sorting. So while German dictionaries ignore the umlauts as claimed, German phone books sort names with umlauts according their non-umlaut transcription (ä = ae, ö = oe, ü = ue). And I own an old encyclopedia that goes the other way and sorts words that are conventionally written with the non-umlaut transcription as if they were written with an umlaut, which is then ignored.
Dictionary: Goethe, Görlitz, Gotha, Gotik
Phone book: Görlitz, Goethe, Gotha, Gotik
Encyclopedia: Görlitz, Gotha, Goethe, Gotik
- fhars 4y agoAnd, oh, yes, "ß" sorts right before "ss" and after "sr".
- DemocracyFTW2 4y ago> dictionaries ignore the umlauts almost, but not quite, since you can have words that only differ by umlaut; in that case, the one with the umlaut should sort after the one without one, so basically your alphabet now is a, ä, b, c, ... l, m, n, o, ö, p, ..., z. This btw is how modern Japanese dictionaries are sorted, too, where two entries with the only difference of a dakuten (as in しゅ, じゅ) are sorted as shown here.