Re: citestyle's BIBLIOSEQUENCE sorts upper and lower alpha separately

Quoting [email protected]:

> Not sure about this... As you said, the following issues arise in
> sorting:
>
> 1. multi-part keys and their respective influence on sorting order
>    ("van Dijk", "The Title of This Article"),
>
> 2. character encoding,
>
> 3. localization.
>
> The first and third issues depend on the context (language,
> bibliography style, ...) and thus cannot be resolved by sort-key
> normalization.
>

I see. An umlaut in an English document needs a normalization to sort  
properly, whereas the same umlaut in a German document doesn't. OTOH  
is it reasonable to expect e.g. from an XSLT-based bibliography  
formatting system to correctly identify the first word or words  
relevant for sorting names or titles? In any language? I somehow feel  
that this should be done by a human.

> The second and third issues are addressed simultaneously by the POSIX
> localization mechanism.
>
> Thus, I think bibliography sorting should, if possible, be done by
> POSIX-compliant sorting (LC_COLLATE, sort(1)) of keys normalized by
> the bibliography style.

XSLT apparently has all provisions to do a POSIX-compliant sorting,  
whereas DSSSL almost certainly doesn't (so I'm screwed again, for the  
time being).

regards,
Markus


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