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Yes. In Finnish and Swedish, the letters V and W traditionally collated together. In other words, this is a correctly alphabetically ordered list: Wasa Vi
by pavlov 4y ago
Yes. In Finnish and Swedish, the letters V and W traditionally collated together.
In other words, this is a correctly alphabetically ordered list:
Wasa
Virtanen
Wiva
Viwe
The rule was apparently changed in 2006 in Sweden though (with Finland presumably tagging along).
There’s probably still plenty of SQL installations around using the old collation rules because tables were created before the 2006 change reached database software.
- doikor 4y agoIt kinda depends. In a list of names, dictionaries, etc V and W would be separately. This is to make finding the word you are looking for easier. Also in Finnish ÅÄÖ are the end of alphabet. Also Ü and Ű would should be grouped with Y. Õ and Ő with Ö.
- pavlov 4y ago> “In a list of names, dictionaries, etc V and W would be separately. This is to make finding the word you are looking for easier.” If you look at older phone books and dictionaries until the 1990s at least, you’ll find that V and W are combined. There are common surnames in Finland that retain the V/W spelling equivalence, like Virtanen and Wirtanen. When they are grouped together (as they traditionally were), it’s easier to find a person by name because you don’t need to know which way it’s spelled.