Re: How to compare strings?

[sigvaldi]

Joost Kremers wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> >> Does Emacs have a concept of sort order depending on language?  If
> >> not, why not?
> >
> > Because characters that have different order depending on the language
> > have different codepoints inside Emacs, and thus the issue doesn't
> > exist.
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
>
> Well, in German dictionaries you will generally find words with ö
> interspersed with those with o, but within the letter O, o>ö. So both "Ode"
> and "öde" appear under O, but the former before the latter. Both, however,
> appear before "oder".
>
> Yet, other languages that use ö may well alphabetise it as a completely
> separate letter. IIRC this is done for example in Hungarian dictionaries,
> where O and Ö are different sections of the dictionary, Ö following after
> O. In Icelandic I think (may well be wrong, though), that it is customary
> to sort words with Ö at the end, that is, even *after* Z.
>

The Icelandic alphabet ends in XYZÞÆÖ