Sorting - case

[Lynne Murphy]

> From:         "A. Vine" <avine at ENG.SUN.COM>
> There is a debate on the Unicode list about what is normal (expected) sort order
> in English - lowercase then uppercase, or uppercase then lowercase?  For
> example, is it August, then august?  Or polish, then Polish?

I'd automatically say lower case first, since I feel like that's the unmarked
type, and I think it should progress from unmarked to marked.

American Heritage has lower case before upper case.

Lynne

P.S.  Andrea's sig quote is:
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.  -- George Michael

I'm wondering if this could be used as a test in a court of law.
"You've been accused of 13 counts of fraud.  Now dance!"

Dr M Lynne Murphy
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School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
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