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Even sorting alphabetically sorted lists by last name differ in western cultures, in the case of particles in the last names. Some countries file “de Rohan”, “
by ttepasse 3y ago
Even sorting alphabetically sorted lists by last name differ in western cultures, in the case of particles in the last names.
Some countries file “de Rohan”, “von Ruhr”, “van Rotterdam” and similar under “R”, others just under the first character of the string.
- alkonaut 3y agoHow does that work in countries where it is common (like in the Netherlands)? I imagine software handles it by pattern matching as when sorting artists as “Beatles, The”? To just match some known “de”, “van” or “van der”! Anywhere I know van der Whatever would just be sorted on “v” but that only works because almost no one has such a last name.