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

[email protected] Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:13:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Bruce D'Arcus" <[email protected]> wrote on Mon, 23 Apr 2007
10:34:11 -0400:

> But sorting conventions vary by locale,

What I meant and neglected to say is that sorting conventions are
usually imposed by the required bibliography style, and that the
sorting locale should thus be set by the bibliography style
definition.

> I've come around to believing that it's easier and more
> straightforward for people records to have an explicit sort-string
> property, as vCard does.

I would love this to be true, but is it? Does the entire world agree
on how to sort names beginning with Van, von, ... (D'...)?

Justus

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