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Re:ACARS Drama by lxgr on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:05PM (#43425818)
Sorting lists alphabetically would produce vastly different results by language, for one thing.
Re:ACARS Drama by wat10000 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:36PM (#43426285)
Already a thing for some languages. For example, Hawaiian sorts its letters as A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W.
Re:ACARS Drama by jval43 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:48PM (#43429372)
Collation rules already differ by locale or language in many programming languages, libraries, and applications.

This is necessary because the order of words or characters is sometimes only sensibly defined if you know the language a text is written in.