Re: sorting languages

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>]

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> Pablo Rodriguez <mailto:oinos@gmx.es>
> 21. März 2017 um 18:19via Postbox 
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> After updating to latest beta (2017.03.21 14:21), I’m afraid I still get
> wrong alphabetic sorting for both Spanish and ancient Greek texts.
>
> See http://www.ousia.tk/grc-order.pdf (and its source file
> http://www.ousia.tk/grc-order.tex).
>
> In Spanish, acute accented vowels are sorted after their unaccented
> versions.
>
> In ancient Greek, some words are simply misplaced.
>
> I don’t know what I am missing. In the suite, Linux 32bit contains
> luateX-1.0.3. I don’t know whether this might affect to word sorting.
>
> I must confess that I don’t understand why replacements require Greek
> letters with diacritics to be converted to the Greek letter without
> diacritic and a Latin character. Or why replacements are needed at all.
>
> I mean, I understand that "ä", "ö", "ü" are sorted in German in three
> different ways. But these are different letters, after all.
>
> If diacritics don’t affect to sort order in Greek, which is the use of
> the replacements?
>
> { "α", "αa" }, { "ά", "αb" }, { "ὰ", "αc" }, { "ὰ", "αd" }
>
> In the line above, isn’t "ὰ" replaced by two different values? Is this ok?
As I can see \setuplist[order=title] has no language specific settings.

Wolfgang

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