Re: unicode equivalent of [A-F]?

I think the tradtional way as you described is fine. It is what readers 
expect with language. That the encoding you are using such as Unicode 
does not have a 1-1 match with those expectatins is of no significance 
to the readers. They don't care, and they certainly don't suddenly start 
sorting text mentally in Unicode order. They continue t sort the way 
they were taught in school when they were 8 years old.

 So it is up to you to come up with an algorithm that matches user 
expectatins and needs and your data structure, not the user's 
responsibility to relearn a large part of their language usage :)

Best,

Barry

Richard Jolly wrote:

>Hi,
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>I have a we page that groups a list of items by splitting it into ranges
>that match the first letter.
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>It not needs to be unicode capable, although the characters will most
>likely be in the latin-1 range. Ideally I'd just like to use a unicode
>equivalent of [A-Fa-f], [G-Kg-k], etc. 
>
>This may not make sense in a unicode world, however.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks, Richard
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