From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Bernard Peek   wrote:   
   >   
   >Or that once you have documented it as an international standard that they   
   >will stick to it, or even check whether a standard already exists before   
   >they reinvent the wheel.   
      
   Indeed.  There are international standards but they are in some degree of   
   conflict.  The way that you sort a mixture of roman letters and kanji is   
   not the same as the way that you sort a mixture of roman letters and hanzhi..   
   The characters are the same but the method is not.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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