From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-04-26T16:57:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Numberic#prev

Niklas Frykholm wrote:
> For example, Swedish has both the letters "v" and "w" but do not distinguish
> them when sorting (va and wa are sorted in the same position), so what should
> ("vv".."vx").to_a be with a Swedish locale?
> 
>         vv, vw, vx
>         vv, vw, wv, ww, vx
>         vv, vx

Huh? 

Isn't this usually done in various mediums only as a convenience for
those looking things up? I've seen the same principle used here in
Norway, but not in any extent that would make me worry about
("vv"..."vx").to_a including "ww".

Then again, things get even more funny when we get our �, � and � into
the picture. *sigh*

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