[mb-users] Sortingorder Dutch tussenvoegsel

[Kees Bakker]

Op 19 apr 2008, om 03:19 heeft Sander van Zoest het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:38:36PM +0200, Fred Marchee wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>> ...
>> As an example a part of the Dutch phonebook:
>>
>> http://nationaletelefoongids.goudengids.nl/search/leiden/buuren.html
>> ...
>> So an "official proposal":
>>
>> Please let the sortingorder of Dutch names with a tussenvoegsel be:  
>> Last
>> name, First name tussenvoegsel.
>
> Please look at the following example. I'd love your feedback. :)

> ...
> Please let me know if I had it all wrong, but it my understanding that
> the display manner was the this way and the actual sorting was the  
> former.
>

Let me give another example, which shows how persons with the same  
family name can end up totally mixed up.

Dirk van de Soest
Bart Soest
Anton van Soest
Kees  van Soest
Jan Soest
Cor van der Soest

Sorting order 1:
Soest,  , Bart
Soest,  , Jan
Soest, van , Anton
Soest, van , Kees
Soest, van de, Dirk
Soest, van der, Cor

Sorting order 2:
Soest, Anton van
Soest, Bart
Soest, Cor van der
Soest, Dirk van de
Soest, Jan
Soest, Kees van

Personnaly I would prefer method 1. But I guess there are already  
established methods (search for "Geest" at http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/index.php?l=G) 
. Ah well.

-- 
Kees