Thank you for the answers about the sorting sequence. I was just wondering about something like Ą̈ or ḁ̈ As it is a collation order given by the Unicode consortium let's take it as is. --Hannes On 12/8/15, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:

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On 07 Dec 2015, at 23:58, Ben Coman <btc@openInWorld.com> wrote:

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:54 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello

According to http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/collation/de.html the German phonebook sort order is

a A ä Ä ą̈ Ą̈ ǟ Ǟ ạ̈ Ạ̈ ḁ̈ Ḁ̈ b B c C d D e E f F g G h H i I j J k K l L m M n N o O ö Ö ǫ̈ Ǫ̈ ȫ Ȫ ơ̈ Ơ̈ ợ̈ Ợ̈ ọ̈ Ọ̈ p P q Q r R s S ss ß t T u U ü Ü ǘ Ǘ ǜ Ǜ ǚ Ǚ ų̈ Ų̈ ǖ Ǖ ư̈ Ư̈ ự̈ Ự̈ ụ̈ Ụ̈ ṳ̈ Ṳ̈ ṷ̈ Ṷ̈ ṵ̈ Ṵ̈ v V w W x X y Y z Z

I wonder why it looks like this. A lot of characters which never appear in a German text.

Foreign residents? cheers -ben

There are lot of turkish and eastern european names in the german phone book, yes.

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For Spanish there is 'traditional' and 'standard'

http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/collation/es.html

standard a A á Á b B c C d D e E é É f F g G h H i I í Í j J k K l L m M n N ñ Ñ ņ̃ Ņ̃ ṇ̃ Ṇ̃ ṋ̃ Ṋ̃ ṉ̃ Ṉ̃ o O ó Ó p P q Q r R s S t T u U ú Ú ü Ü v V w W x X y Y z Z

traditional a A á Á b B c C ch Ch CH cĥ Cĥ CĤ cȟ Cȟ CȞ cḧ Cḧ CḦ cḣ Cḣ CḢ cḩ Cḩ CḨ cḥ Cḥ CḤ cḫ Cḫ CḪ cẖ Cẖ d D e E é É f F g G h H i I í Í j J k K l L ll Ll LL lĺ Lĺ LĹ lľ Lľ LĽ lļ Lļ LĻ lḷ Lḷ LḶ lḹ Lḹ LḸ lḽ Lḽ LḼ lḻ Lḻ LḺ m M n N ñ Ñ ņ̃ Ņ̃ ṇ̃ Ṇ̃ ṋ̃ Ṋ̃ ṉ̃ Ṉ̃ o O ó Ó p P q Q r R s S t T u U ú Ú ü Ü v V w W x X y Y z Z

And French is not easily found http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/collation/index.html or seems to be defined elsewhere

http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/tags/release-27/common/collation/fr.xml

Suggestions and hints are welcome

--Hannes