From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10ke9no$2091b$8@dont-email.me>,   
   Lawrence DÿOliveiro   wrote:   
   >On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:31:29 -0500, 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.   
   >   
   >It’s not the computers at fault, it’s the programmers who don’t know   
   >to write text-processing code that caters for different languages.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   Not the programmers fault.  It's a problem using ASCII (or   
   EBCDIC) rather than unicode.   
      
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