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Add information about "alphabetic indexing"

Open aphillips opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

While adding text about sorting, it occurs to me that we need text about alphabetic index functionality, but I don't have time to write it now.

aphillips avatar Apr 29 '22 15:04 aphillips

What's the difference between alphabetic indexing and regular human-visible collation?

xfq avatar Dec 21 '23 06:12 xfq

Some CJK-related information:

xfq avatar Dec 21 '23 06:12 xfq

"alphabetic indexing" is the part of human visible sorting in which sorted items are grouped together. A great example of this is the I18N Glossary, which has an (English) A-Z alphabetic index. Other languages use different alphabets with more or fewer letters; different scripts; etc. Content not in the user's language may still need to be grouped in various ways.

aphillips avatar Dec 21 '23 14:12 aphillips