Re: [bug-obsolete-packages] sort.exe

[上西 俊雄]

Dear Sirs,

RE:sort.exe

It has an option to ignore case, so I took it to be case-insensitive on default.

The Kana syllabary of the Japanese languages comprises more than a hundred syllables. To sort Japanese words into dictionary-order e.g. unvoiced T should come before the voiced counterpart D if it is situated in the string which should come before the string of D when case is ignored.

So the word should be scanned more than once. I used to prepend the key field of ASCII string by mappig Kana to alphabet letters treating lower-case upper-case letters as distinctive letters.

Cf the table on the last page of EHS (Extended Hepburn System), the transliterational romanization system of the full set of the Kana syllabary

http://www.halcat.com/roomazi/doc/KakutyouHebonSiki/xtn_hbn4.pdf

Sincerely yours,

KAMINISHI Toshiwo

(The family name comes first in Japan. I am an old Japanese boy)

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