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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by DemocracyFTW on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:23AM (#27659991)
> Korean alphabet (Hangul) is fully ordered

Buuuut historically, there have been several ways to arrange Hangul linearly, and the prevailing sorting in dictionaries differes between North and South Korea.

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by lifthrasiir on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:39AM (#27660101)
This is why I had to point out that order does exist, just that there are too many such orders.
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