S18: Editorial issues
 
 

2. Producing the names index - B) Alphabetisation

 

It should be realised that alphabetization is language-dependent: the sequence of the 26 letters in our alphabet is different for different languages. In Dutch, letters with diacritic signs come under the original letter; in Danish they have a separate place: å there comes after z, for instance...

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