Falsehoods programmers believe about languages
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In Denmark we have the digraph "aa" that is the same as "å". Since "å" is the last letter in the Danish alphabet, "aa" must be sorted likewise. Hence the ordering Aalborg -> Allerup -> Middelfart is incorrect and the correct ordering is Allerup -> Middelfart -> Aalborg.
The exception is if two a's end up besides each other due to compounding words: "ekstra" + "arbejde" gives "ekstraarbejde" but here it is not a digraph so ekstraarbejde -> ekstrabetaling is correct ordering as well
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet
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Middelfart?
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In German Ä comes after A, in Swedish Ä comes after Z
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English used to have this! Yea/nay for positive, and yes/no for negative I believe. The former fell out of common use.
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I don’t know any Vietnamese, but I suspect it would be as awkward of an answer as “not no” in English.