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A comment on Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011). Parent comment

Re:Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011) by trw999 on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:25AM (#19645053)
I don't think you're in a position to speak for all of humanity.
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Re:Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011) by fenomas on Saturday April 13, 2019 @02:51PM (#19654978)
I meant a human as opposed to an algorithm.

Point being: kanji words aren't always sorted phonetically, for the reasons described in the article, so a user may not be surprised if they aren't. But when a human is sorting kanji words they do so phonetically by reading.

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