On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 07:37 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > how are Asian telefone books sorted? Or are they transcripted from the > symbolic into alphanumeric writing and then sorted "normally"? I'm eager > to know... Korean Hangul are really alphabetic, so I'm sure there is no big problem there. Japanese Kanji have a standardized stroke order: someone who really knows Kanji can look at even an unfamiliar one and know which order the strokes are made to draw the character. As a result, Kanji can be sorted by number of strokes, and then by particular strokes with a typical radix method. I don't know how Chinese is sorted, but I would imagine it's more or less the way Kanji are. Thomas
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