From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10kdp51$1kju4$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >In 2010, the Academia Real Española declared that 'ch' and 'll' were no   
   >longer letters in their own right, but digraphs (like 'ph' in English).   
   >As such words with 'ch' would be alphabetized after 'cg' and before   
   >'ci', and those with 'll' would have that between 'lk' and 'lm'.   
   >   
   >I personally think this was because computers could not handle them as   
   >single letters, and sort algorithms in particular would just break.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   Not really true...  It depends on how the text is coded   
   internally.  If you're using ASCII or ECBDIC, then those digraphs   
   would be two symbols each.  That's because those are 7 or 8 bit   
   code schemes.  If you're using unicode, each character uses 16   
   bits and those could be very easily defined as single symbols.   
   (Unicode handles a great many more symbol sets than the Roman   
   alphabet.)   
      
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