Alphabetical Incrimination. 1

[ClulessChris]

As ‘increment’ is a mathematical term, what would be correct to step alphabetical characters?


Everybody is somebodys Nutter.

 

[xwb]

Is there an alphabetic sequence for letters with diacritics? For instance, does [ð] come before or after a and what is the correct sequence for a, á, â, ?, ä.

Sometimes the Noels come before the Noëls and sometimes after.

 

[white605]

Isnt there a value assidned to every character in whatever language is being used? Now we have uppercase and lowercase and who knows what else in other languages. Why not use that ASC value, Math, and confuse everyone?

 

[xwb]

Doesn't help using ASC because Noël comes after Nong when I would expect it to come before.

Gets quite strange when you set LOCALE and sort. If LOCALE=US then underscore comes between Z and a. If LOCALE=GB, underscore comes after z so you will never find the word with an underscore if you do a GB sort and perform a binary search using ASC. I haven't tried setting LOCALE to whatever France or Germany are and attempting a sort with words containing diacritics.

 

[donbott]

Incrimination?
Incrementation!

DonBott

Does not play well with others

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Adam did it
No, Betty did it
No, It was Charlie
I saw Dave do it
Ed's the guilty one!

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Incrimination?
Incrementation!

I thought the same thing as soon as I saw the thread, Don. I'm thinking it was just a joke to make for an interesting (and punny) thread title.

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[ESquared]

Criminy!