[mb-users] Sortingorder Dutch tussenvoegsel

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Sander van Zoest <sander at vanzoest.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:05:12PM +0200, Fred Marchee wrote:
> > I thinks this is the real problem, we are trying to explain a common
> > sorting order to American Guys ;-)
>
> I do not think nationality has anything to do with this. It just happens
> to be that it is less common in English and usually is "fixed" by
> concatonating the family name into one word. You should see some of my
> credit cards. ;)
>

We have the same problem in French, although much less frequent (we boast
about having cut the heads of our nobles 200 years ago...). I am sure
Portugal has the same sorting problem and I guess Italy, Spain and probably
many other countries have it too.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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