Sorting by Case

[Steve K.]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Michael Horlick wrote:

>      Even if the American Heritage dictionary catalogs words in a
> lowercase-then-uppercase manner, the heading at the top of each section
> reads 'A a' and 'B b' -- not the other way around.

But that's a design choice and has no bearing on the order in which
they're entered in the A-Z text.

Different publishing houses have different ordering rules. There is no one
right or wrong answer; however, one should expect consistency within a
given publishing house.

-- Steve K.